How to Use transfuse in a Sentence

transfuse

verb
  • The hospital staff transfuses more than 8,000 units of blood annually.
  • The same young nurse from the birth gave me oxygen through my nose and transfused two bags of blood.
    — Ariane Chang, The New York Review of Books, 2 Apr. 2020
  • That plasma would then be transfused into patients who are still sick with the disease.
    — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Doctors then take the liquid part of the blood, called plasma, and transfuse it into the patient’s blood.
    — Cassidy Morrison, Washington Examiner, 10 July 2020
  • Red blood-cells are then mixed with an anticoagulant and transfused back into the donor.
    — The Economist, 10 May 2018
  • Cam is injected with unknown serums, blood gets transfused and pocket-passing drills turn grisly.
    — Jake Coyle, Boston Herald, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Doctors then take the liquid part of the blood from the healthy patient, called plasma, and transfuse it into the blood of those who need treatment.
    — Cassidy Morrison, Washington Examiner, 23 Aug. 2020
  • Blood has been transfused from one greatest player to the next over multiple generations, and Cam is next in line.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Most of this comes from plasma-collection centres, where it is extracted from whole blood and the platelets and blood-cells are transfused back into the donor.
    — The Economist, 12 May 2018
  • When transfused into a patient, the plasma hangs from an IV bag alongside the hospital bed.
    — Erika Hayasaki, The Atlantic, 5 May 2020
  • The researchers took white blood cells from two girls with the disease, gave their cells the gene for making the missing enzyme, grew them to huge numbers, and transfused them back into the girls.
    — Christopher Wills, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Because platelets must be transfused within five days of donation, there is a constant — often critical — need to keep up with hospital demand.
    — azcentral, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Health care providers should monitor patients for sepsis when transfusing platelets, the CDC advised.
    — Susan Scutti, CNN, 13 June 2019
  • The stations extracted valuable plasma from the farmers’ blood and pooled the leftover blood, which was then transfused back into villagers in need of the procedure.
    — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Alvarado prepared to transfuse a unit of convalescent plasma into a patient.
    — Lauren Caruba, San Antonio Express-News, 12 June 2020
  • For the Hackensack study, the plasma will be transfused into people who are attached to ventilators, and to those who have not yet needed the devices.
    — Tracey Tully, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020
  • If testing their method of freeze-drying, rehydrating and transfusing red blood cells works in rats, the next step would be testing on larger animals such as pigs, Menze said.
    — Morgan Watkins, The Courier-Journal, 12 June 2019
  • Doctors harvested Sullivan's stem cells before treatment and later transfused them back into her body to rebuild her immune system.
    — Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 23 May 2026
  • Having the immune system attack transfused blood can cause deadly complications for recipients.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2023
  • Recent research has shown that transfusing this mixture rather than individual components improves survival rates.
    — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Foran said her group has shortages of B-negative and O-negative, which is known as the universal blood type and the most commonly transfused when a patient's blood type is unknown.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Patients need to be transfused with donors blood regularly, and even with these transfusions, complications can occur if the dose isn’t right and iron levels in the blood cells spike, which can lead to organ damage and even death.
    — Time, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The plasma is transfused into another patient suffering from coronavirus infection.
    — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2020
  • The therapy is based on the idea, well documented in laboratory research, that transfusing plasma from patients who’ve recovered from a virus transfers its healing power.
    — Todd Ackerman, Houston Chronicle, 13 May 2020
  • Sheilla was transfused with a new set of blood on her 11th day in the hospital — the vials given by Nguma and Cheruiyot had since expired for use on newborns, who need blood that’s only a few days old.
    — Max Bearak, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2020
  • Once the wounded are on the operating table, antibiotics, antiseptics, blood typing, and the ability to transfuse patients all make surgeries far more likely to be successful today.
    — Tanisha M. Fazal, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The girl, whose numerous health problems include cerebral palsy and epilepsy, suffered massive blood loss and was not fully transfused for some three hours after her birth, and suffered brain damage as a result, according to Ball.
    — Mike Nolan, Daily Southtown, 11 May 2017
  • Using convalescent plasma to transfuse antibodies into an ill patient is different from the antibody testing that is occuring globally.
    — Sarah Ravani, SFChronicle.com, 12 May 2020
  • In the first eight months of Fort Worth’s blood program, paramedics have transfused more than 150 units of blood into 140 patients, according to data as of mid-December.
    — Lauren Caruba, Dallas Morning News, 2 Jan. 2026
  • French doctor Jean-Baptiste Denys started transfusing sheep blood into humans in the late 1600s — and while a few recipients survived, many others died.
    — Elizabeth Svoboda, Discover Magazine, 3 Dec. 2023

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