>family member getting blood transfusion at Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park. I asked the doctor if they screen 100% of the blood donated. Doctor: "Well nothing is 100%."
>No I mean do they sample every donation or is it lets say 10% across all samples.? Doctor: "The screening process is very good."
He was very noncommittal to saying what the screening standard was. Maybe he doesn't know, its not his department. BTW you have sign a release before accepting a blood transfusion because of the risk of disease transmission.
>grab small samples from a bunch of bags >mix it all up >test the result that's how its tested its not 100% accurate
Zachary Gomez
Pro tip: its the high school from Starship Troopers.
Tyler Price
>Amerilard healthcare Not even shocked m8s. It's what we've come to expect from the third world.
Liam Davis
Is it a serious crime to knowingly donate HIV infected blood in Argentina? Its not in California.
Andrew Wilson
>third world laws to boot
Christian Myers
I could go in now and probably give tainted lyme disease blood if I wanted to. No idea what the fuck that would do to whoever gets the blood, but I'm not a shitbag weirdo wanting to spread my burden to others.
Christopher Jackson
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Levi Hill
They don't test for medication either. They accept blood from people taking clozaril.
I have needed transfusions and refused them.
Blake Cox
>Thinking you can just hand them bags of blood
Joshua White
Utah should charge top dollar for pure Mormon blood.
Elijah Young
>You will never fuck Denise Richards after getting terrible test scores at your fascist trainee academy. Why even live?
Jose Bell
Didn't they just pass a law allowing faggots to donate blood?
Nathaniel Diaz
>even our fags are cleaner tha yours
James Morales
he was fucking putting blood in you that he steals off homeless people after they pass out from a binge
>California lawmakers have passed legislation to reduce the penalty for those who knowingly or intentionally expose others to HIV without their knowledge, rolling back a law that mostly affected sex workers. >The bill, SB 239, which was approved by the Democrat-controlled state legislature in September and signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown (D) on Friday, will lower the charges for these acts from a felony to a misdemeanor when the law goes into effect in 2018. The act of knowingly donating HIV-infected blood, also a felony now, will be decriminalized.
Justin James
here every bag is tested wtf trump
Brayden Thompson
>The act of knowingly donating HIV-infected blood, also a felony now, will be decriminalized.
Fuck this gay earth
Blake Hughes
my mother has some health issues where she might need a transfusion within the next year im so fucking scared since they legalized giving people HIV, and donating HIV blood
Daniel Reyes
You know, they do rely mostly on heat treating.
Easton Brooks
maybe you can donate some blood right before and have it reserved? there are probably private blood banks if the hospital doesn't do this
Jack Clark
Blood doesn't last that long
Liam Sullivan
What the fuck. Give me one good reason why KNOWINGLY giving people AIDS shouldn't warrant the death penalty.
Jose Wilson
You're just trying to stigmatize the gay.
Eli Rodriguez
yeah it can only be stored about 42 days. you can however draw blood and keep it available if the surgery is scheduled
Aaron Adams
Tried to do this before surgery, my insurance refused to cover it.
Michael White
Theres actually a really good chance my great grandmother died of AIDS via bad blood transfusion. It was in the late 70s right before AIDS was discovered.
Christopher Martinez
I used to work in a blood bank lab. Every unit of blood is tested for infectious diseases as well as a whole slew of minor and major factors. There's a small window of time, about a week, where a recently infected person may carry the virus in their blood at a low enough amount that we can't detect it. Absolutely not. This is called an autologous donation. Leukoreduced RBCs are good for 42 days, more than enough time for your body to regenerate. If you want to get fancy, you can also glycerolize and freeze it for decades. It's rare to need an autologous transfusion unless you're a doping for athletics, or have an extremely rare set of minor blood types and have had many transfusions in the past.
Ama I guess
Benjamin Cox
do you guys have different tiers of blood in the blood bank?
Caleb Robinson
It was a big big deal that the FDA dragged their feet so much on mandating testing for HIV antibodies. iirc AABB beat FDA to it actually, and thankfully most US blood banks are part of the AABB. No, but some types are rarer than others. Half the population has the cytomegalovirus, which can't be used for pediatric transfusions, and everyone has a whole bunch of minor blood types (aside from the famous ABO and Rh that everyone knows) - your body's immune system can tolerate transfusions of incompatible minor types, even maybe an incompatible ABO or Rh, but eventually it starts to reject incompatible minor types, which means people who get many transfusions start to need blood matched more closely than ABO and Rh. Funfact: the minor types common in blacks are chronically in short supply, since they don't donate.
Leo Brooks
*desire to know more intensifies*
Julian White
This was my regular hospital for ages and I never noticed that
Luke Bailey
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Kayden Lewis
>Funfact: the minor types common in blacks are chronically in short supply, since they don't donate.
But I was lead to believe that #BlackLivesMatter
Luke Morgan
It helps the economy you commie piece of shit. Think of all the healthcare jobs it would create, plus the spike in demand for HIV meds to treat the newly infected.
Isaiah Hill
Just think of all Filipino nurses we can import.
Justin Martinez
as I understand it they take samples from each donation, mix it all in to a homogeneous batch, and then test the batch if there's HIV detected they throw out all of the donations so letting and encouraging HIV positive people to donate blood (it's effectively what they're doing, saying "go ahead!") might not result in infections but it will make the cost of donor blood increase
Jack Reed
There are fucked up homos that want to poz straight people AKA "breeders" because of hatred and/or perverted exhilaration. So they'll take advantage of this law.
David Bailey
Wut, I don't get your comment.
Landon Brown
Whatever new healthcare jobs that open up will be filled by Filipinos.
Justin Ward
Why tho.
Nolan Evans
I thought there was a test that was developed by a couple of young people between 14 and 25 who all independantly developed an easy method to test blood for std, aids and hiv
Jonathan Clark
20% of all the registered nurses in California are Filipinos
Everyone who made that law should be eviscerated on stage in public
Chase Kelly
neat, thanks for this
Cooper Myers
it makes party queers who have 6 new random dicks shoved into them per night feel sadsies that they aren't included.
Jonathan Ortiz
Is she healthy enough to have her blood drawn now and stored?
Blake Sanders
Because then nobody would ever get tested.
Connor Evans
Good point, unknowingly doing it should also warrant the death penalty.
Wyatt Ward
how do u even prosecute
Angel Morgan
>all homosexuals have hiv >hiv magically spawns when gay men have sex
Christopher King
Nursing student and EMT here; here's what I can tell you based off of my experience.
1. Never give false hope. For us nurses (by extension I'm assuming MDs), we're constantly taught never to give potentially false absolutes (like hope). We have to strive for stuff like "We'll do the best we can", "You're receiving the best care we can give", etc.
2. There are many diseases that can be spread via blood and there is no universal test for everything. This means they only test for the most common blood-borne pathogens and only specific blood abnormalities if there is reason to do so (e.g., you're showing S/Sx and HPI for a specific autoimmune disease so they'll test for specific antibodies r/t that said disease). They'll for sure test for HIV and Hepatitis in the blood being donated, but I doubt they'll test for something like Rabies unless they have reason to do so.