Blood in the veins

The reporter Pere Renom gives blood and follows his blood bag to the Blood and Tissue Bank. There, Eduard Muñiz-Diaz, director of Immunology, explains what are the blood groups and how to take into account in transfusions. He also knows special lighting system to visualize veins in obese people or in children. The device is the result of collaboration between Jerome Ibarra, Supervisor of Infirmary in Vall d’Hebron, and Francesc Pi, Physical Optics Group at UAB. With Ferran Rodriguez, professor of INEFC, Renom comes in a hypobaric chamber, which reproduce the conditions of pressure in the top of Montblanc to understand what are the body’s responses to altitude. And visit Grifols, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world in obtaining human plasma derivatives. In the studio the presenter Jaume Vilalta explains the ABO blood group compatibility and how blood pressure is measured.