Blood donation
A blood donors donates approximately 500 ml of his/her blood directly into a sterile bag system. The blood bag is then centrifuged, and the cell components get separated from the blood plasma. What remains is a bag of erythrocytes and a bag of so-called recovered plasma. In some blood banks the platelets i.e. the buffy coat are collected as well.
Erythrocytes are imminently needed in hospital for surgeries and critical care.
Some specific blood is also necessary for the diagnostic industry.
What is ...
Blood is a body fluid in that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells. Blood is composed of blood cells suspended in blood plasma.
The blood cells are mainly red blood cells (erythrocytes), white blood cells (leukocytes), and platelets (thrombocytes). The most abundant cells are red blood cells. The human body has in average approximately 5 liters of blood.
Every transfusion must be cross-matched in order to see if the receipients blood and the erythrocyte bag selected for the patient are fully compatible.
Diagnostic companies manufacture special test kit for these kinds of test.
This means a blood donation for a diagnostic purpose safes life as much as a blood donation for a human transfusion.
There is no alternative for blood yet, but there are possibility to mitigate the blood loss in planned surgeries. For over a decade transfusional systems worldwide work on the so-called patient blood management in order to minimize the transfusion of erythrocytes.
Recover your plasma – patients need it
Every blood donation can be separated into erythrocyte concentrate and plasma. A small amount of this plasma is used for transfusion. The major part, however, is discarded. 50 % of our blood is plasma. It is the liquid part. A 500 ml blood donation contains up to 300 ml blood plasma.
Nations around the world still discard its blood plasma instead of recovering it for fractionation. Patients around the world suffer from severe diseases and depend on the raw material blood plasma.
Immunoglobulin, Human Albumin, Coagulation Factors and many more medicinal products derive from blood plasma.
Let’s recover the blood plasma and use it to the patients good. It`s my job to show you how.
Use the beneficial cyle
First step to begin with using Recovered Plasma can make a difference. Using Recovered Plasma for fractionation creates opportunities for blood establishments.
PdmP access
A path to access to plasma derived medicinal products
and plasma for fractionation independence.
