Blood Facts
This life-saving resource has no substitute and can only come from volunteer donors.
What is blood?
A single blood donation can be separated into this many components.
What is three?
This blood type is the most common, accounting for 39% of the population and can give to anyone with a positive blood type.
What is O-positive?
This type of donation, also called a “double red,” uses an automated procedure to collect concentrated red cells and help twice as many patients.
What is a Power Red donation?
The average adult body contains 10 to 12 of these units.
What are pints of blood?
This blood component has the shortest shelf life of all the components – just five days.
What are platelets?
Universal blood donors have this blood type.
What is O-negative?
To donate, you’ll need to bring either a Donor ID or this kind of identification.
What is a picture ID?
Every this number of seconds someone in the U.S. needs blood.
What is two seconds?
This component of blood is commonly used to replace blood lost in a car accident.
What are red blood cells?
Patients with this blood type are considered universal recipients and can accept all other blood types for transfusion.
What is AB-positive?
Students can earn this recognition item by donating blood three times or volunteering nine or more hours at three drives.
What is a HERO cord?
One out of this many people entering the hospital will need blood.
What is one in seven?
This is the liquid portion of blood that contains clotting factors, proteins, and antibodies.
What is plasma?
Only 1% of the population has this rare blood type.
What is AB-negative?
Completing this health history questionnaire before your appointment can save you 20 minutes at your blood donation appointment.
What is the FastTrack?
After a donation, it can take up to this long for blood to be prepared for the community supply.
What is 2.5 days?
This blood component is commonly used to help cancer patients who are undergoing treatment.
What are platelets?
Factoring in both blood type groups and Rh factor, there are this many blood types.
What is eight?
This is considered the best way to recruit donors to give blood.
What is a personal or face-to-face ask?