The American Red Cross has declared, for the first time, a national blood crisis.
Amid National Blood Donor Month, the U.S. is facing its worst blood shortage in over a decade, according to a press release.
Meanwhile, the demand for blood from hospitals and surgery centers is “as high as it’s ever been,” Baia Lasky, MD, the medical director of the American Red Cross, told Healio.
Due to the blood supply shortage, hospitals may receive 25% less blood stock than they need, she said.
There has been a 10% decline (Read more...)