Vital Signs
Facts & Figures
Blood counts
60%
Percentage of the population eligible to donate blood
5%
Percentage of those eligible who do donate blood
95%
Percentage of people who will need a blood product
sometime during their lives
35
Units of whole blood that must be collected every day
to meet the needs of DHMC patients (a unit is about a pint)
10 to 12
Units of blood in the average adult's body
3.4
Units of blood in the average transfusion
384
Units of blood that would be donated by someone
who gives blood every 56 days, from age 17 to age 76
10
Number of minutes the average whole blood donation takes
866-40-DONOR
Phone number for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Blood Donor Program
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