Blood Donation Process

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So if you decide to come in and donate. Things that you can plan on for each type of donation, a specific time period that you'll need to take out of your day. The regular whole blood donation, we say takes forty-five minutes to an hour. So, when you walk through the door forty-five minutes to an hour until you're walking out. Basically, a breakdown of each section. It's going to take ten to fifteen minutes to do your medical history interview. You'll be in the chair about ten to fifteen minutes. Now, you're in the chair that time. But, to actually donate the blood it takes about five to ten minutes. We just need prep time and discontinuation time. And, then we ask you to stay about fifteen minutes afterwards. And, sometimes if there are a lot of donors it does take a little bit longer. But, generally you'll be out in about an hour. The automated donations have longer periods of time. Because, they actually have to process your blood while you donate. So, expect about for platelet donation about an hour procedure time. And, with the plasma red cell donations about half hour procedure time. So, you tack that on to your screening and your resting period after that. So, we say about two hours to do a platelet donation and about an hour and a half to do the double red cell or the double plasma donation. So actually it's pretty convenient. Especially, we do mobile blood drives where we go to busy companies and employees there can do their donation of whole blood in about forty-five minutes. And, it doesn't really take too much time out of their day. Although, any time you give us is appreciated. So, here's some information about the amount of people who actually donate. In California, thirty-nine percent of the population is eligible to donate. And, of that thirty-nine percent only about five percent actually come out. So, it's really important to let people know that we really need blood. All blood types are needed. And, we really appreciate the donors who come in. And, if you feel that you're eligible and you want to either learn more or you want to come in and donate. Give us a call and we can help you out.

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