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Wednesday, August 29, 2001
UNC Hospitals Seeks Donors
UNC Hospitals says it needs
12 pints of platelets a day to
safely treat patients but is
averaging about five pints.
By Karey Wutkowski
Assistant University Editor
UNC Hospitals is receiving less than
half the plasma and platelet donations it
needs and, as a result, is having to treat
patients with a less-safe product.
Because most students left the area
for the summer, donations have
dropped to dangerously low levels, and
the hospitals are having trouble replen
ishing their reserves, said Laura Shook-
Marino, donor recruiter of UNC
Hospitals’ Platelet and Plasma Program.
Shook-Marino said the hospitals need
12 pints of platelets a day. While the pro
gram is usually able to supply that
amount, lately only four or five donors are
providing a pint, or unit, of platelets daily.
When the program has enough
donations, it tries to match a donor with
a patient so the patient is exposed to
only one person’s blood.
But when the program faces shortages,
the hospitals are no longer able to abide
by this ideal procedure. “What happens
when we get down to four units of
platelets is that we start splitting platelets
among patients,” Shook-Marino said.
Platelets, which Shook-Marino likened
to an internal bandage, promote clotting,
while plasma helps carry the solid cells
and platelets throughout the body.
To get the number of donations back
up to the needed levels, Shook-Marino
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Wanted: Your Platelets
UNC Hospitals is experiencing a shortage of platelet and plasma donations to give
to its patients. Here, the process of platelet extraction is broken down.
Important
Information
■ One can
donate every
48 hours but
no more than
24 times a
year.
■ The process
takes 2 hours.
■ Each patient
yields one
therapeutic
unit of
platelets.
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■■■■ Blood is drawn from one arm.
Up k UhCI Blood is passed
/H| through blood cell
separator, which
collects the platelets.
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are returned through other arm.
SOURCE: STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER AND UNC HOSPITALS
said the program is focusing on students,
who usually constitute 30 percent of its
donors. The rest come from community
members and hospital employees.
“(Students) have a real sense of com
munity, and a lot of them have donated
whole blood in high school,” she said.
And Shook-Marino said many students
would rather donate for free than go to a
center like Sera-Tec Biologicals limited
Partnership, which pays donors for then
plasma. “For a blood product to be trans
fused to a patient, it has to be a volunteer
donor, and I think students realize this.”
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The process of platelet and plasma
donation differs from whole blood dona
tion because it is a “give-and-take process.”
“We take out a little blood and spin
out the platelets and plasma,” Shook-
Marino said. “Red blood cells are
returned to (donors).”
Shook-Marino said the process only
takes one hour to donate plasma and
two hours for platelets. “We can’t offer
payments, but we can offer T-shirts.”
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Sprint Worker Suffers
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The Associated Press
YOUNGSVILLE, N.C. - A small
explosion injured a computer support
worker at a Sprint administrative office
building Tuesday morning, and authori
ties found a second suspect device a few
hours later.
The explosion occurred at 7:40 a.m.,
before most employees had arrived for
the day. Sprint spokesman Tom
Matthews said it happened in a third
floor hallway, in or near the doorway of
a break room.
A second device was found in the
same area a few hours later by a bomb
squad from the State Bureau of
Investigation, Franklin County Sheriff
Robert Redmond said.
The item was small, about the size of
a fountain pen, Redmond said he was
told by other investigators. It wasn’t
immediately known whether it, too, was
Charges Filed in Deaths of 2 Pilots
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HOPLAND, Calif. - A man was
arrested on suspicion of murder Tuesday
in the deaths of two pilots whose fire
fighting planes collided while battling a
blaze that may have broken out at an
illegal drug lab in the woods.
Frank Brady, 50, of Redwood City
was jailed without bail. A second,
unidentified suspect also was arrested.
The two planes collided Monday
evening near Hopland, about 100 miles
north of San Francisco, while dumping
fire retardant on the 250-acre wildfire,
killing retired Navy veteran Larry Groff,
55, and Lars Stratte, 45.
Murder charges filed in connection
with a wildfire are extremely rare.
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an explosive.
Bomb squad workers were attempt
ing to drag the item down a hall and into
an elevator to the first floor, where it
would be moved by a robot to the lawn
outside the building and possibly deto
nated, Redmond and sheriff’s Lt. Nelson
Ross said.
The injured man, Chris McMillan,
whose age was not immediately known,
had shrapnel wounds to his hand, Ross
said.
He was speaking to investigators at
Wake Med hospital in Raleigh, about 20
miles to the south, where he was in sat
isfactory condition.
Redmond said the item that explod
ed “appears to be a piece of metal tub
ing” that looked like copper.
The explosion was small, Ross said.
“Witnesses have described it as sound
ing like a gunshot. It’s not something
that would not even break windows.”
fire was started as a result of a drug lab
operation,” Bob Ceriani of California
Department of Forestry told The Press
Democrat in Santa Rosa. The
Mendocino County Sheriff’s Narcotics
Task Force was called to investigate, the
newspaper reported Tuesday.
The pilots were flying alone in the
Korean War-era Grumman S-2 planes
when they clipped each other during a
pass over the fire.
One plane broke apart and plum
meted to earth, exploding on impact,
said Jeff Anderson, who lives near
Hopland and saw the collision from the
deck of his home. The other crippled
plane continued on briefly and crashed
less than a quarter-mile away.
The cause of the collision was under
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Redmond said authorities had no the
ories as to a motive. He said he would
contact police in Chapel Hill, about 40
miles west of Raleigh, to investigate any
possible link with a suspected pipe
bomb found Monday on the UNC-
Chapel Hill campus.
About 600 people work at the Sprint
facility, handling marketing, public rela
tions, human resources and similar tasks
primarily for Sprint’s operations in
North Carolina, and to varying degrees
for Virginia, South Carolina and
Tennessee.
McMillan works in computer sup
port, said Steve Parrott, Sprint’s state
executive for North Carolina and South
Carolina.
Several hundred employees arrived
for work after the explosion and were
kept outside the building by police.
After a few hours, they were sent home
for the day.
The blaze has destroyed at least 12
structures and threatened more than a
dozen others. It was 60 percent con
tained Tuesday.
The two pilots were employed by
San Joaquin Helicopters of Delano.
The National Transportation Safety
Board lists six accidents since 1995
involving aircraft operated by the com
pany. Of those, a 1998 crash resulted in
the death of an air tanker pilot.
A call to Sanjoaquin Helicopters was
not immediately returned.
In Southern California, authorities
were investigating whether an arsonist
started an 1,800-acre brush fire that
destroyed at least one house in the hills
north of Los Angeles and burned within
a few feet of several luxury homes. The
fire was largely contained Tuesday.
Campus Calendar
Today
6 p.m. - Campaign to End the
Death Penalty will hold a candlelight
vigil in the Pit for soon-to-be executed
Ronnie Frye.
7 p.m. - Kappa Psi
Pharmaceutical Fraternity is holding
a pharmacy information session with
pharmacy faculty in Beard Hall
Lounge.
Refreshments will be provided.
8:30 p.m. - Bounce, UNC’s humor
magazine, is having an interest meeting
for potential writers, artists, cartoonists,
photographers, graphic designers,
online techies and advertising recruiters
in Union 2(J6.
There also are openings on the edi
torial board for the advertising editor
and distribution manager.
Bounce also is accepting submissions
for the September issue. The deadline is
Sept. 6.
Thursday
5 p.m. - Blank Canvas will have a
general interest meeting in Union 205.
8 p.m. - Campaign to End the
Death Penalty will hold a general
interest meeting in Union 206.
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