Persuasive Speech On Blood Donations

I’ve gone through days of chemotherapy to kill my unhealthy bone marrow and I feel awful. I’ve been stuck in a heavily quarantined area so I don’t get sick since the treatments required before the transplant deplete my immune system. So today is my transplant. And yeah… and I’m not ready for it. I guess I should be thankful they found a donor so fast. The doctor who is performing the procedure came in, introduced himself as Dr. Williams; told me he was a bone marrow transplant specialist, and gave me details on what he is going to. Dr. Williams began by explaining the exact procedure bone marrow transplant. He explained that during the procedure they will begin by giving the donor special shots that move stem cells into the bloodstream and then white blood cells with stem cells are sorted out through a machine. Then he went on to the part that scared me the most: a special catheter needle will be implanted on my chest to allow the direct flow of the donor's blood to my heart for a total of a few days. He went on further to tell me some of the risks. He said that there’s a possibility that my body will reject the donor cells, my organs could become damaged, there could be nausea or vomiting, fever, and a headache. These symptoms are more common in older people and he told me that there odds of these risks are slim, so this made me feel a lot better.

Some people strongly believe that donating blood is bad, but what people don’t know is that it actually has surprisingly good benefits like reducing the risk of cancer, burning calories, and even saving someone’s life, so everyone who has the opportunity to give should.

Our nation has a major blood shortage which results in a national health crisis. States all over the nation are reporting the need for blood donors and the importance of having donors to help those who are directly affected. There has been a recent rise in shortage due to the increased demand of high complex surgeries which require a large supply of blood. McMillan reports, “just one liver transplant can take 120 units of donated blood” (Zabarenko, 2016). It is imperative to bring attention to this social problem, and begin to search for possible solutions, as well as identifying gaps in the policy before seeking policy revision. Experts indicate that “the only solution is for this problem is to persuade people to become donors” (Nagourney, 2009).

The red fluid that circulates in our veins and arteries is none other than blood! Is blood important? But of course it is! Blood’s main function is to act as the body’s transport system and also plays a major role in the body’s defense system against infections (America’s Blood Centers, 2012). Among many things, blood contains red blood cells, the component that carries oxygen to cells, and carbon dioxide away. (ABC, 2012). However, blood disorders pose a threat to the health of the body, sometimes requiring the host to have blood transfusions in order to survive (National Institute of Health, 2012). A particular blood disorder of interest is sickle cell anemia, a condition that affects 300,000 people born every year!

Sickle cell anaemia is most often treated with blood transfusions in the UK, where the blood volume is replaced by healthy donor blood. This provides short term treatment for sickle cell anaemia patients, giving them healthy red blood cells that distribute oxygen around the body well due to their normal haemoglobin content. However the patient 's stem cells in their bone marrow continue to make new, sickle red blood cells as the donor cells begin to die meaning eventually the defective cells will once again be in the blood causing symptoms. This means that blood transfusions are needed regularly which can have an impact on both the hospital and the patient. There are both advantages and disadvantages for regular blood transfusions as treatment for sickle cell anaemia.

Sickle cell disease is a blood disorder in which red blood cells take on an abnormal shape. Sickle cell anemia is when the red blood cells hemolyze, or die. Sickle cell disease is inherited from generation to generation and is the most common in inherited blood disorders. An estimated 70,000-100,000 people in America are currently suffering from this disease, most of which are African Americans. One is diagnosed with sickle cell disease in early childhood generally around four months old when the signs and symptoms are presented. Because of its huge impact, the United States requires all newborns to be tested for this disease. [1] Sickle cell disease is known to affect, “approximately 1 in every 400-500 African American

If one person becomes an organ donor, they can save up to eight lives (UNOS). The demand for organs has rapidly increased in the last decade due to more incidences of vital organ failure (NCBI). More people should sign up to be organ donors, knowing that they could save so many lives. You don’t have to die to donate your organs, a kidney donor can donate one of their kidneys by a simple operation. You would be able to see the magic come alive yourself and see how you made a family and persons wish come true. Today, I will first take you through the problems of not having enough people donate their organs. Next, we will look into the effects of this problem. Finally, we will sign off with some solutions for getting more people to become organ donors.

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is calamitous defect of the red blood cells (RBC’s) resulting in an impairment if he circulatory system, damaging tissue, causing dangerous anemia, deadly infections, and infarctions (Redshaw, & Martin, 2013). SCD patients live two to three decades less than their healthy peers, affecting up to one-hundred-thousand American’s, with the vast majority of African descent, and a small fraction of Hispanic, Asian Indian, Middle Eastern and Southern European (Redshaw, & Martin, 2013). More than 90% of children diagnosed with SCD in The United States, will reach adulthood; consequently, the majority of SCD diagnosis occur during mandatory routine newborn health screenings (Redshaw, & Martin, 2013).

Sickle cell disease (SCD) patients undergo episodic or chronic blood transfusions to treat anemia and prevent life-threatening complications. Although blood transfusions provide benefits to SCD patients, there are also associated risks. The risks of transfusion include infectious disease transmission, circulatory overload, acute hemolytic transfusion reactions, iron overload, hyperhemolysis, red blood cell alloimmunization and delayed hemolytic transfusion reactions (DHTR). Alloimmunization and DHTR are one of the biggest challenges and occur in 25-30% of SCD patients. Only those patients who are responders will become alloimmunized. The number of units transfused, the limited or extended phenotypically matched red blood cell transfusion,

Happy Friday! Unfortunately, I have news regarding Donor Max. After several data pulls with Jan (thanks, Jan), there are too many discrepancies between the donor max file and the campaign file that Jan sent over. Jan, unfortunately we’ll need you to continue to submit the campaign files monthly.

Heart surgery has always been a huge undertaking, something not possible even just 100 years ago. Today we have a few ways of repairing or fixing damaged heart tissue but doing that is still extremely dangerous and difficult to find a donor for.

Researchers from the FSCDR administration found out that regular blood transfusions can reduce the occurrence of strokes and attacks in sickle cell patients. Regular monthly blood transfusions can help raise red blood cell counts and therefore reduce sickling and blood clots causing health complications. Further research into preventative remedies includes bone marrow transplants. Written by Vanessa Wasta this research goes in depth about how

On January 4th, 2017, you issued an emergency call for blood and platelet donation because the severe winter weather was eating up your blood supply causing a shortage and once again you issued a statement on July 5th, 2017, saying that, “The decline in summer donations is causing a significant draw-down of our overall blood supply, and we urgently need people to give now to restock hospital shelves and help save lives,” (Mandal). So, if I am understanding this correctly, the nation is still experiencing a blood shortage? Ok, here’s the part that I find funny, there’s an entire population that is able to donate but yet are deferred by your system. Can you guess what that population is? No? Well, it’s gay and bisexual men.

If you had the chance to save someone's life, would you take it? To leave the greatest and deepest impact that you will forever be remembered for your selfless decision. You may not recognise it but we all hold the potential to save someone's life. Inside our bodies, we have organs which hold great value to us and others in need of organs. Once we die, we no longer need our organs, so why not give somebody else the gift of life? Today I am going to tell you all how you can save someone's life. I am going to discuss how becoming an organ donor saves lives, what organs you can donate to save someone's life when you die and how you can become an organ donor.

62 Griffith University students, 35 female and 27 male age 18 – 30 were asked to participate in our survey. Respondents had to fill out 20 questions which included demographic questions on age, gender and nationality as well as questions regarding awareness, attitude and actual behaviour towards blood donation. The quantitative data from our survey was entered into