Prophylactic plateletpheresis and blood transfusions were given over an eight-month period, and the patient's platelet count and periodic pancytopenia were being monitored. Platelets are collected from whole blood donations and through a special machine method of collection called plateletpheresis.
IPO. Independent practice organization A legal entity in the US, in which physicians and/or dentists enter an arrangement to provide services through an entityâeg, a prepaid health plan, while maintaining their own private practices.
A reverse takeover or reverse merger (reverse IPO) is the acquisition of a public company by a private company so that the private company can bypass the lengthy and complex process of going public. The transaction typically requires reorganization of capitalization of the acquiring company.rocess. In a reverse merger, shareholders of the private company purchase control of the public shell company and then merge it with the private company. The publicly traded corporation is called a shell since all that exists of the original company is its organizational structure.