From the receiving end of the needle, having two streams would likely double the chance of errors happening. Even the best phlebotomist has a bad day. Also, veins often move when you try to stab them.
Not to mention any blood-related equipment are single-use. So the needle, tubes, containers, they all go to a special bin (I hope to be recycled). Doubling up would unnecessarily increase the cost/effort.
I would highly recommend going to your nearest centre and learn by donating yourself! 😀
There's only one needle. So the machine works in multiple suck-return cycles (separation happens simultaneously during return). Roughly every 5-10 minutes. The final return will include a bag of saline to replace the plasma they took.
Which is why one or two warnings are not usually a major concern, as long as the following cycles are okay. But usually after 3 (in my personal experience), they just say, "not your day, come back in two weeks hey?"
No medical background, but a regular donor here. Plasma donations involve taking your blood out, separating the plasma, and returning everything else in a continuous process.
This other article about one of the victims indicated that the machine issued 5 high-pressure alerts about this return process, all of which were ignored.
It's not unusual to get an alert or two. Sometimes there's a kink in the tubing, or an improperly positioned needle. Sometimes I fall asleep and the pressure drops.
Properly trained staff should know by the nature and frequency of the alerts to terminate the process. In that particular incident, even the machine told them to terminate, but was ignored.
"implementing things in non-standard ways", have been their modus operandi for about 3 decades now
Ehhh... The sharp implement battles have kinda always been there. Knifepoint didn't earn it's nickname for nothing.
And the kids have graduated to using VPN; which I believe has always been the endgame for the govt. How many times have they tried to ban encryption?
"The laws of mathematics is well and good, but we respect the laws of Australia here" - Some knob that somehow managed to become PM
Probably just her actual name. I'm sure the locals didn't know you as 'altphoto@lemmy.today' either.
Why is anyone throwing anyone? I didn't want to watch a morbid video, but should't she know that she wasn't attached to anything??
Poor que no los dos? ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
"Quickly" is right. Soon as they started being mobile, we've not been able to distract them from whatever they're trying to get to.
"No, you can't have chilli con carne yet. Here's some of your favourite snacks instead"
*Ignored them all and keeps trying to reach for my food. They turned red and ran away screaming when I relented and gave them what was more chilli than carne.
Then they did it again the next day with the exact same result. Guess you're never too young to learn about reproducibility of results.
It worked about maybe 20% of the time with ours. The majority of the time they would start presenting other options.
"Or, I play with the ball in the backyard", and started heading towards the door. Or, "you take it", rolled the ball over, and started playing with something else.
It's cute as, but also an endless source of frustration for us...
Am I being wooshed here? Aren't Go and Go Fish two completely different games?
No, what they're describing is a False Friend. A very specific type of homophone/graph/nym. They work across languages. And in many cases (though not a hard rule) have close enough meaning/usage that would confuse non-native speakers trying to comprehend things via context.
E.g. A German telling his English friend, "I'll meet you at the gymnasium". The sentence is correct, and makes perfect sense to both. But they'll end up at two different places.
Yep. "Occupied Crimea" and "Occupied West Bank" seem to be the convention. Occupied Palestine would be equivalent to Occupied Ukraine, which they don't say either.
There's plenty to criticise the BBC about in their reporting of the conflict. This doesn't seem to be one of them.