InvestigateTV+: A solution to blood shortages?
Season 4, Episode 36
(InvestigateTV) — A Kansas City doctor is testing a new way to fight severe blood loss with ingredients that sound more like your grocery list. InvestigateTV+ explains how it works and why some in the medical community are hopeful that the discovery can ease blood shortages.
Then, volunteers show us how they turn donated clothing into a boost of self-esteem for young students.
Plus, we get an up-close look at how teamwork on the tarmac gets flights in the air safely and on time.
Better than blood?
A doctor and research scientist at the University of Missouri-Kansas City said he has discovered a potential alternative to blood transfusions for people with severe blood loss. He calls the treatment “better than blood.”
When someone experiences severe trauma, such as a car crash or gunshot wound, they risk bleeding to death.
Blood transfusions are currently the best treatment to try to stop severe blood loss, also known as hemorrhagic shock.
Bringing education to eager students
It’s not unusual to see students working on college-level coursework, earnestly taking notes from the professor.
But some of the lessons being taught by Rhodes College professors aren’t being delivered in a lecture hall, or even on a school campus, but inside a facility at the West Tennessee State Penitentiary.
Airport brothers
Brothers Bobby and Lance Snyder have a combined eight decades of service with American Airlines at Charlotte Douglas International Airport.
They help make sure planes arrive and depart safely and on time at the airline’s second-largest hub. Their commitment is inspiring their younger co-workers.
These boxes help children
A Virginia nonprofit is using volunteers to pack personalized boxes of clothing and other items for children who lack access to proper clothes.
Boxes of Basics founder Sarah Tyndall started the organization in 2018. A thousand volunteers have since built custom care packages for more than 8,500 children across Virginia.
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