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Summary: Curious about the blood donation process? Learn how blood is collected in this free video clip about how to donate blood.

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Geoff Balenger Geoff Balenger is a registered nursed at Stanford Blood Center in Palo Alto, California. read more

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Unique Blood Collection Bags

The other types of bags that we use made by the Terumo Company, similar to the Pol bag except that it has a different component. So, it still has the citrate, phosphate and dextrose that the Pol bag has. But, this one has a component called optisol. Optisol keeps red blood cells alive for forty-two days. So, in case a doctor wanted to keep red cells for that long they would use this type of bag. All the other blood types, except for your O's go into this bag. One thing that I forgot to mention, is that at Stanford here we test for the cytomegalo virus. Or, CMB is what we call it. It's pretty much a harmless virus to adults. You get it, it's like cold or flu symptoms. And, then you recover. But. the antibodies remain in your body. Like I said, harmless to adults. But, if you give that blood that has antibodies in it to premature babies or cancer patients they can have a bad reaction. So, donors who are CMB negative. They're blood is saved for premature babies and cancer patients. That type would definitely go into the Pol bag here. And, then the other types of CMB positive donors, AIDS would go into the Terumo bag.

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