Infographic: Ease blood donors’ jitters, and highlight their vital gift
For National Blood Donor Month, your medical personnel can offer essential facts to assuage fears and remind people just how important their donation is.
By | Posted: January 9, 2018
What happens to your body when you give blood?
In January, National Blood Donor Month, patients might be asking your
doctors and other medical staff that very question. Answering it clearly
and succinctly is crucial to keeping the supply of blood flowing to blood
banks and hospitals.
You can spell out the impact with this infographic from the Sharp Health News website.
For example, the infographic notes that the technician will take only one
pint of blood from a person’s veins (men have about 12 pints in their
bodies; women have 10), and the body will start making new blood
immediately.
It also highlights the urgency of donations: Every two seconds in the
United States there is need for a blood transfusion.
View the infographic
here.