Blood Transfusion the Pros and Cons of Essay

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Blood Transfusion

The Pros and Cons of Blood Transfusion

A blood transfusion poses both risks and benefits and, therefore, there are pros and cons to be weighed before opting for a blood transfusion. What a blood transfusion does is allow blood products to be replaced in a human body that has lost its own blood products through either illness or accident. The pro-of undergoing a blood transfusion when in danger of death is that it can prevent death and save life. The con of undergoing a blood transfusion is that there are numerous side effects that can accompany the procedure, such as the rejection of the immune system to foreign blood products and/or complications resulting from contamination. This paper will address by the pros and cons of blood transfusion and conclude with a recommendation and an alternative procedural option.

The pros of blood transfusion are that in life and death instances, it is a procedure that can make all the difference.
Statistically speaking, there are relatively few cases of blood transfusions that have caused serious illness or death. Millions of transfusions transpire in the course of a single year, and can serve as a suitable solution for the varying medical conditions that require new blood product. It can correct temporary anemia and bone marrow failure. The degree of risk is low. On the contrary, the benefits of undergoing a blood transfusion to replace blood products lost through illness or accident far outweigh the risks. There are, of course, a number of factors that should be determined prior to a transfusion -- and these can readily be discussed with your physician.

The cons of blood transfusion are manifest in the risks that do exist even if they are low.….....

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