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  2. Exchange Transfusion: Purpose, Procedure, and Preparation

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    An exchange transfusion is a medical procedure that’s done by removing and replacing your blood with blood or plasma from a donor. This is done by using a catheter to transport blood into your ...

  3. Final Stages of Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Symptoms & Support

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    These include: recurring infections. chronic fever. unusual bleeding. According to the National Cancer Institute, about 30 percent of people diagnosed with AML survive 5 years or longer. When ...

  4. Mobile Telephone Switching Office - Wikipedia

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    All cellular systems have at least one MTSO which will contain at least one MSC. The MSC is responsible for switching calls to mobile units as well as to the local telephone system, recording billing data and processing data from the cell site controllers. The MSC is connected to a close telephone exchange by a trunk group.

  5. Blood Crossmatching: The First Step in Blood Transfusions - WebMD

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    The first test is blood typing, which tells you your blood type. This test also shows whether your Rh blood type is positive or negative. There are four blood groups: After establishing your blood ...

  6. Second messenger system - Wikipedia

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    Second messenger system. Second messengers are intracellular signaling molecules released by the cell in response to exposure to extracellular signaling molecules—the first messengers. (Intercellular signals, a non-local form of cell signaling, encompassing both first messengers and second messengers, are classified as autocrine, juxtacrine ...

  7. Lung Diagnostic Tests: Spirometry, Pulse Oximetry ... - WebMD

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    This test can give you advance warning of an asthma attack. Pulse oximetry, or “pulse ox.”. This test uses a device that measures how much oxygen your red blood cells are carrying. The device ...

  8. Endomembrane system - Wikipedia

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    The endomembrane system is composed of the different membranes ( endomembranes) that are suspended in the cytoplasm within a eukaryotic cell. These membranes divide the cell into functional and structural compartments, or organelles. In eukaryotes the organelles of the endomembrane system include: the nuclear membrane, the endoplasmic reticulum ...

  9. Hypoxemia is when you have low levels of oxygen in your blood. When this happens, the organs and tissues in your body don’t get enough oxygen to function properly. Hypoxemia is often the result ...