PLASMA DONATION

Plasma Donation

Benefits

Plasma helps patients who are in need of lymph, who are in shock from scalding or burns, or who have hemorrhagic fever.

Procedures

Pass blood through a filter apparatus to separate plasma from the blood cells. Plasma will then be stored in a bag while red cells are sent back to the donor's body.           Plasma donation-500 cc each time-can be repeated every 14 days. In addition to being used as a blood component for specific patients, the donated plasma is also put through laboratory processes to create blood products such as Albumin (factor 8 concentrated, factor 9 concentrated), intravenous Immunoglobulin, hepatitis B vaccine, rabies vaccine.