PUMPED UP ABOUT BLOOD
Las Vegas, NV - Pima Medical Institute
Students In Las Vegas Roll Up Sleeves
For Blood Drive
The students and staff at Pima Medical
Institute, 3333 E. Flamingo Road in Las Vegas are pumped
up about blood and want to help. The mobile van for
United Blood Services will be parked at the campus from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on June 7.
Donors must be at least 17 years old, weigh 110 pounds,
be in good health and not have donated blood in the
past eight weeks. Donors will need to show a photo I.D.
Tours of the campus will be available for those interested
in learning more about PMI’s programs and refreshments
will be served.
“As future healthcare practitioners, our students
understand the importance of blood donations and want
to help,” said Babbette Burcaw, campus director
for the Las Vegas school. “The national average
for regular blood donors is 6 %, but only 2 % of Las
Vegas residents currently donate blood. We want to see
that figure increase substantially.”
Little known facts about blood include:
- 80,000 pints of blood are used each year in Las
Vegas (about nine units an hour).
- An estimated 85% of us will require blood before
the age of 75.
- One pint of blood can save up to three different
people’s lives.
- The average car accident trauma uses about 50 units
of blood.
- There is no substitute for human blood.
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