Cryoprecipitate treatment for people with bleeding disorders. They werent asked. Some clinicians explained how they would have adapted their Treatment Practices if fewer American Products had been available and this is not the benefit of hindsight. On either side of the pennines, alder hey and sheffield Childrens Hospital is treated children with bleeding disorders at the height of the aids crisis. Alder hey treated its children almost exclusively with large full commercial concentrates. Utterly inappropriate. Almost all of the children were infected with aids. By contrast, at sheffield, professor sought to minimise exposure to multiple donors by using cryoprecipitate. There was one infection with hiv at sheffield Childrens Hospital. It is still one too many but it is illustrative of the fact that the adoption of different Treatment Practices by Haemophilia Clinicians could have substantially reduced the number of infections. Treatment choices mattered. Take the case of the Haemophilia
Was a disaster not an accident, that those in authority, doctors, Blood Services and governments did not put Patient Safety first and that patients were knowingly exposed to unacceptable risks of infection. Andy evans has haemophilia, a Bleeding Disorder. He is one of 30,000 people infected by the treatment he received. By the time he was five years old he had hiv and hepatitis c, and at 13 he had developed full blown aids. No, if that is for me of my remarkable team, thank you. Applause. But you are actually applauding the wrong people. This is your report. Aim i may have done the words, certainly the errors and omissions are all mine. 0ne certainly the errors and omissions are all mine. One of them has already been pointed out to me this morning by one of you. But the words can from you and your stories. I want you please in a moment to give me an applause at least as long and probably longer, standing if you would if you can, to those who are really responsible for what is in this r