But the chances of receiving a safe transfusion - or any transfusion at all - vary enormously from country to country.
This includes good antenatal care, prevention and timely treatment of anaemia, assessment of the need for transfusion and safe blood transfusion given only when really required.
New ability: Nest- binds Queen to targeted Hatchery, casting spawn larva on cooldown. Cannot attack or use transfusion while nested.
Objective To improve skin degerming method of puncture position in transfusion, to raise sterilization effect and prevent phlebitis.
The patient was treated with a transfusion of gut microbials from a healthy individual's fecal material to restore the bacterial flora in the intestinal tract - and symptoms improved.
A brand new car was out of the question unless we stopped by the hospital and got a transfusion for my purse on the way.
Television personality Heather Mills-McCartney, herself a beneficiary of blood transfusion following a serious accident in 1993, will preside over celebrations.
Despite some recent improvements in this important area, fewer than 30% of countries have a nationally coordinated blood transfusion service in place.
Almost 150 years passed before the practice was revived in 1818 by an English obstetrician, James Blundell, who performed a human-to-human blood transfusion at Guy's Hospital in London.
This proposal won't help the young woman with a rare blood type, knocked over by a car, bleeding profusely. This won't help the thousands of anaemic cancer sufferers needing a blood transfusion.
