(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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Shortages of all blood types happen during the
summer and winter holidays.
After donating blood, you replace the fl uid in hours
and the red blood cells within four weeks. It takes
eight weeks to restore the iron lost after donating.
If only one more percent of all Americans would
give blood, blood shortages would disappear for
the foreseeable future.
Much of today’s medical care
depends on a steady supply of
blood from healthy donors.
Apheresis is a special kind of blood donation that
allows a donor to give specific blood components,
such as platelets.
Four main red blood cell types: A,
B, AB and O.
10 pints: amount of blood in the
body of an average adult.
Only 38 percent of the U.S.
population is eligible to donate
blood – less than 10 percent do
annually.
Each blood type can be positive
or negative for the Rh factor.
There is no substitute for human blood.
Many patients with severe sickle cell disease
receive blood transfusions every month.
Plasma, which is 90 percent
water, makes up 55 percent of
blood volume.
Thirteen tests (11 for infectious
diseases) are performed on each
unit of donated blood.
Blood or plasma that comes from people who
have been paid for it cannot be used to human
transfusion.
Red blood cells carry oxygen to
the body’s organs and tissues.
About 1 in 7 people entering a
hospital need blood.
One pint of blood can save up to three lives.
O
negative is the universal donor of
red blood cells.
Platelets promote blood clotting
and give those with leukemia and
other cancers a chance to live.
A newborn baby has about one
cup of blood in his body.
AB is the universal recipient
Healthy bone marrow makes
a constant supply of red cells,
plasma and platelets.
Blood makes up about 7 percent
of your body’s weight.
