Construction of Blood Bank Equipment

By Mr Ron Newton

The purpose of this book to provide developing countries outside the Europe, UK and the USA, blood bank equipment that can be made in the shop at a reasonable cost. The instruments can be built in trade schools, colleges by the Bio-Engineer and even in the home shop. Many of the instruments shown in this book cost thousands of dollars retail but can be built for less than $50.00 in parts. The instruments have been proven and published in several electronics magazines and journals. Many are being used in developing countries presently. This book is compiled of both published items and other writings of the author. This book comes with a CD which can be downloaded.Costs in Blood banking and medicine in the United States has sky rocketed. The cost of a CBC in 1960 was $8.00 and now it is not uncommon to pay $80.00. CBCs back then were all manual labor and now they are fully automated. Increasing costs have been caused by malpractice suits and regulations. E.g., the "Shorty" (see chapter five) is a device that weighs blood while a phlebotomy is being performed. The part cost is about $100.00 ($85.00 for the load cell alone). I sold my rights to this device in the year 2000. It is now manufactured and sells for $3,000 ea and is one of the leading blood bank scales. Please keep in mind, that none of these devices have been approved by CE standards or by the FDA and are used at your own risk.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1482377691
• ISBN13: 9781482377699
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"