How to Use transfuse in a Sentence

transfuse

verb

• The hospital staff transfuses more than 8,000 units of blood annually.
• The same young nurse from the birth gave me oxygen through my nose and transfused two bags of blood.
  — Ariane Chang, The New York Review of Books, 2 Apr. 2020
• Doctors then take the liquid part of the blood, called plasma, and transfuse it into the patient’s blood.
  — Cassidy Morrison, Washington Examiner, 10 July 2020
• Doctors then take the liquid part of the blood from the healthy patient, called plasma, and transfuse it into the blood of those who need treatment.
  — Cassidy Morrison, Washington Examiner, 23 Aug. 2020
• That plasma would then be transfused into patients who are still sick with the disease.
  — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2020
• Most of this comes from plasma-collection centres, where it is extracted from whole blood and the platelets and blood-cells are transfused back into the donor.
  — The Economist, 12 May 2018
• When transfused into a patient, the plasma hangs from an IV bag alongside the hospital bed.
  — Erika Hayasaki, The Atlantic, 5 May 2020
• Zoom doesn’t have the functionality to transfuse blood.
  — New York Times, 8 Apr. 2020
• Red blood-cells are then mixed with an anticoagulant and transfused back into the donor.
  — The Economist, 10 May 2018
• A secondary benefit, of course, would be the ability to transfuse victims more quickly.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2017
• For the Hackensack study, the plasma will be transfused into people who are attached to ventilators, and to those who have not yet needed the devices.
  — Tracey Tully, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020
• Health care providers should monitor patients for sepsis when transfusing platelets, the CDC advised.
  — Susan Scutti, CNN, 13 June 2019
• Sheilla was transfused with a new set of blood on her 11th day in the hospital — the vials given by Nguma and Cheruiyot had since expired for use on newborns, who need blood that’s only a few days old.
  — Max Bearak, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2020
• If testing their method of freeze-drying, rehydrating and transfusing red blood cells works in rats, the next step would be testing on larger animals such as pigs, Menze said.
  — Morgan Watkins, The Courier-Journal, 12 June 2019
• Patients need to be transfused with donors blood regularly, and even with these transfusions, complications can occur if the dose isn’t right and iron levels in the blood cells spike, which can lead to organ damage and even death.
  — Time, 6 Aug. 2019
• Because platelets must be transfused within five days of donation, there is a constant — often critical — need to keep up with hospital demand.
  — azcentral, 25 Apr. 2018
• Smith said about the professionals who transport patients to a hospital and emergency staff that can transfuse blood and quickly patch severed vessels in the operating room.
  — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 21 Apr. 2018
• The girl, whose numerous health problems include cerebral palsy and epilepsy, suffered massive blood loss and was not fully transfused for some three hours after her birth, and suffered brain damage as a result, according to Ball.
  — Mike Nolan, Daily Southtown, 11 May 2017
• In trauma situations, when there’s no time to check a patient’s blood type, emergency personnel reach for type O negative red blood cells and type AB plasma because they can be transfused to any patient, regardless of blood type.
  — azcentral, 25 Apr. 2018
• Alvarado prepared to transfuse a unit of convalescent plasma into a patient.
  — Lauren Caruba, San Antonio Express-News, 12 June 2020
• The therapy is based on the idea, well documented in laboratory research, that transfusing plasma from patients who’ve recovered from a virus transfers its healing power.
  — Todd Ackerman, Houston Chronicle, 13 May 2020
• Having the immune system attack transfused blood can cause deadly complications for recipients.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2023
• Wisconsin Madison: University Hospital will join a national effort to transfuse antibodies from the plasma of people who recovered from the coronavirus to treat patients still struggling with it.
  — USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2020
• Recent research has shown that transfusing this mixture rather than individual components improves survival rates.
  — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
• An emergency investigational new drug, or e-IND, authorization is required to transfuse convalescent plasma into patients, but not to collect it from donors or distribute it.
  — NBC News, 1 Apr. 2020
• The plasma is transfused into another patient suffering from coronavirus infection.
  — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2020
• Using convalescent plasma to transfuse antibodies into an ill patient is different from the antibody testing that is occuring globally.
  — Sarah Ravani, SFChronicle.com, 12 May 2020

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024