NAIT students, Canadian Animal Blood Bank hold dog blood bank – Edmonton | 24CA News
Dogs from throughout Edmonton donated blood Saturday as a part of an initiative from NAIT and the Canadian Animal Blood Bank.
Students in NAIT’s animal well being expertise and veterinary medical assistant packages collected blood from canines immediately for the animal blood financial institution, with the hope of giving any animals that come into emergency rooms a preventing likelihood.
“We can do some really amazing things with the animals, however, there’s really no life support for them,” mentioned registered vet technologist Dustin Portelance. “This is a crucial product that is given to animals to help extend that window of opportunity that we have to figure out their illness, to treat their illness and save their life.”
He mentioned they take a full unit of blood from the animals — the equal of what a human would donate — which may save as much as three canine lives.
The blood financial institution additionally helps the scholars who come out to realize expertise exterior of a college setting.
Second 12 months pupil Boyana Kircheva mentioned the blood financial institution is an effective way for college students to get hands-on expertise with sufferers, work together with purchasers and get a really feel for a real-life clinic setting.
“This gets you to work more with other students … and you get to teach each other, which is a great opportunity,” she mentioned. “I find that if I can teach someone else, I can deepen my own understanding.”
Dogs should be in respectable well being, between the ages of 1 and eight and at the very least 25 kilograms to be eligible to donate.
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