Saving Lives one Pint at a Time

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Saving Lives One Pint at a Time

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The Purpose

To assemble high school students, teachers, and many more to make a difference and donate blood in order to enable individuals with sickle cell anemia and leukemia to live the lives they deserve.

In addition, to increasing awareness of these diseases/ disorders as a problem by hosting a blood drive and through capstone presentation

By:

• Mater Osueke
• Juan Cornejo
• Heriberto Alvear
• Gisselle Flores

What can be done to help?

Why Blood Transfusions Help

How can one pint save 3 lives?!

• There is no cure or prevention for Leukemia and SCD

The Blood has about 4 components that help

Composition of the blood:

Sickle Cell

Leukemia

Successes

• Red Blood cells alone are not the only component taken from blood that can be used to save lives.
• One pint of donated whole blood alone can provide:
• red blood cells,
• platelets,
• plasma,
• and/or cryoprecipitated AHF.

• There are ways to maintain and controll the disease to prevent complications

Red Blood Cells:

• helps with oxygen

Platelets:

• prevent bleeding

Plasma:

• provides minerals,

vitamins ect

Cryoprecipetated AHF:

• rich in clotting factor

Red Blood Cells

• incr. red blood cell count

Platelets:

• incr. platelet count
• help the blood to clot

Plasma:

• proteins for blood clotting

Cryoprecipetated AHF:

• clotting factor

• Recruited 118 donors
• Only 21 people differed
• 23 red blood cell donations
• 3 plasma donations
• 71 whole blood donations
• 117 components

• One way it can mabe maintained is through blood transfusions

Helped save 354 lives!

Transfusions help provide these very things

Who Gets Who's Blood

Blood Combinations

Blood Types

• Eight different common blood types
• Blood types include
• A positive or A negative,
• B positive or B negative,
• AB positive or AB negative,
• and O positive or O Negative

O- can receive O-

O+ can receive O+, O-

A- can receive A-, O-

A+ can receive A+, A-, O+, O-

B- can receive B-, O-

B+ can receive B+, B-, O+, O-

AB- can receive AB-, B-, A-, O-

AB+ can receive AB+, AB-, B+, B-, A+, A-, O+, O-

• Different blood types require different specific combinations.
• A+ blood can only give blood to people with A+ or AB+ blood
• AB+ blood can only give to those with AB+ type blood
• The universal blood type is O- meaning that they can give blood to anyone
• Blood combinations are essential for making sure the patient does not have a life threatening reaction during a blood transfusion.

But first.....

What is Sickle Cell Anemia and Leukemia?

What We did to help

In order to help the growing issue, we organized an initiated a blood drive

Sickle Cell Anemia

• A disease caused by inerited abnormal hemoglobin that causes "sickled" red blood cells

Leukemia

• Progressive disease in which the blood forming organs such as bone marrow produce immature or abnormal leukocytes which suppresses the production of norml blood cells which leads to anemia

We partnered with the Gulf Coats regionl Blood Center to carry it out

• We madeannouncements and set up a table to recruite donors and volunteers
• We placed flyers in different locations
• We posted on Social Media
• Spent long hours after school organizing

"Commit for life...and [help] save lives, today...and in the future"

Global

Connections

Global Connections

India

Nigeria

Local Connections

There is a growing Leukemia issue in India

• 25,000 children diagnosed every year
• the number of children affected has doubled in the last 20 years

• Nigeria Has the largest Sickle cell case in the world
• 25& of adults have the sickle cell trait in the populouse counrtry of 112 million
• This is due to a lack of blood saftey innitiatives

• SCD affects about 90,000 to 100,000 Americans
• In the US about 1 in 12 African Americans have the sickle cell trait

• Approximately every 3 minutes, one person in the U.S. is disgnsed with some form of blood cancer
• Leukemia Texas has worked extremely hard to help patients all over Texas. They alone have aided hundreds of patients with no help at all from the government or other private donors.

Challenges

• Organizing Donors to fit school schedule
• Time management
• Last minute preparations
• Many donors backed down last minute
• Not hearing back from Patt Neff elementary

There are many local facilities:

• Central Texas Sicle Cel Anemia Assc. (Waco, Tx)
• Sickle Cell Assc. of Houston and
• The Guf Coast refional Blood center