Collection Bags for Type O Blood Donations

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At this point, we have finished our medical history interview. And, our donor is going to donate. So, the first thing we'll do is select the appropriate blood bag for our specific donor. And, we do that by checking blood type. So, donors with certain types go in different kinds of blood bags. For example, if a donor is O positive then it will go in this type of bag. This is what we call a Pol Bag, a policy company that manufactures it. These bags contain certain ingredients, citrate, phosphate, dextrose and adenine. Citrate is an anti-coagulant. Phosphate and dextrose are kind of food for red blood cells. And, adenine is a preservation solution that keeps the red blood cells alive for thirty-five days. You'll notice that there are more than one bag. This one is the actual collection bag. So, when we begin the blood draw four hundred and fifty milliliters of whole blood will go into this bag. This is the one with all the solutions I was mentioning earlier. The other bags are going to be used by our laboratory. What they're going to do is separate the blood into it's components. Red blood cells, plasma, each of those components is going to go into one of these bags. And, you'll also notice that this bag has this pink filter here. This is a leukoreduction filter, it removes the white blood cells. The red blood cells will go through this and the white blood cells will be taken out. We don't transfuse white blood cells. Because, they react in patients. And, the patient can have a bad reaction from healthy white blood cells and, the reason we separate the blood is that we found that patients usually only need specific components like red cells or plasma. Red cells, which is the most commonly used component is usually used in surgeries. Plasma is used in trauma and it's also made into clotting factor concentrates for hemophiliacs. People with clotting factor abnormalities. So, at this point. Now, that we have selected our bag we're going to select a unique unit number. There are sixteen large numbers and eight small numbers. Each of these numbers, is going to go on the bags, the satellite bags, the history card and the tubes that we would use for infectious disease testing. Once the blood has been drawn, the donor now becomes this unique unit number. So, it will go off to the hospital and this is how they will track every single part of this blood draw.

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