Show Red Cross Blood Center Report The services of the IntermountaIn taIn aln Regional Blood Center American American A- A merican Red Cross for the month of May once again gain the value of the program in n terms of service rendered We Ve collected 1207 pints of blood in May It was used as f follows Whole blood distributed to hospitals for fractionation frozen n plasma 16 Fresh frozen rozen plasma is used to help cont l bleeding in people whose blood does not clot pro pro- perly The monthly allocations of cf gamma globulin to doctors treating treating treat- treat ing ng patients with a gamma globulin globulin glo- glo bulin julin deficiency to control persistent persistent persistent per per- infections continues to increase We Ve are advised by our National Headquarters that the Intermountain Regional Blood Center receives from the Red I Cross National Blood program more gamma globulin for this service than any other Center in the United States This Includes Includes In Includes In- In Centers like Los Angeles and New York who draw between between be between be- be tween ten and thirteen thousand pints of blood per month compared compared compared com com- pared to our twelve to fifteen hundred In May we distributed cc of gamma globulin from our Center This product has a commercial value of approximately ap approximately ap- ap proximately 4 per cc Each month some GOO COO youngsters are happy well children with a saving saving saving sav sav- ing of to their parents as ns a result of the Red Cross Blood program One bottle of blood is required to produce 6 cc of gamma globulin Four cc bottles of serum albumin were distributed at a commercial value of about 70 per cc's Six Units of fibrinogen fibrinogen fi- fi were us used d. d A little extra effort on donor recruitment during the summer months will be needed to help helpmeet helpmeet helpmeet meet hospital needs |