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File: 970207_aadcu_010.txtMEDICAL LESSONS LEARNED DESERT SHIELD/STORM CATEGORY: Blood ISSUE/ITEM: SUBJECT: Assessment of Donor Population BACKGROUND: Military Blood Donor Centers are assigned quotas for collection based, in part, on calculated base donor pools. Care should be taken to ensure donor population is accurately quantified. DISCUSSION: A high percentage of ATC donors are our students. In Desert Storm, we found that we had not previously considered the fact that pipeline students would have recently arrived from BMTS at Lackland where they would have been previously drawn to satisfy Lackland quotas. The impact would have been much greater in a general war scenario, when BMTS/student production would be greatly accelerated. ACTION RECOMMENDED: (1) Determine appropriate "discount factors" in calculating available student donors at the receiving TTCs. (2) Determine minimum safe time interval in which these students could be redrawn at the TTCs. SUGGESTED OPRs/OCRs: HQ ATC/SG/TT HQ USAF/SGHR SUBMITTER: Terry W. Clarke/Capt/HQ ATC/SGAX [(b)(2)]
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