All about Doneting Pletlets / Blood
All about Donating Platelets / Blood Do you know, your Blood Donation can help 3 people ? Yes, 3 People. Because it separates following things from your blood. 1) Platelets 2) Plasma 3) Blood It is possible to obtain only Platelets from a Donor by a process called 'Apheresis'. Like in routine blood donation , 350 ml. of blood is drawn from the donor . ... Almost 300 ml. of Platelets is obtained in this manner from just one donor . The Platelets so collected are called Single Donor Platelets (SDP). Donating plasma is similar to giving blood. A needle is placed into a vein in your arm. Plasma is collected through a process call plasmapheresis and is conducted in cycles that may take up to an hour. Whole blood is drawn. The plasma is separated from the red blood cells and other cellular components. Cost of these kind of Separator machine could be approximately 15-20 Lacs Each Separation Kit made from Plastic cost approximately is 10-15,000 I donated P