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Patients are able to donate ahead of time for their own surgeries. This procedure must be directed by the patient’s physician.
Apheresis donation is an automated blood donation process in which donors give specific components of blood (red blood cells, platelets, or plasma) to meet the needs of our community. During the donation, whole blood is drawn, separated, and the needed components are collected. Platelet donors are eligible to donate every seven days and plasma donors every 28 days. Automated donations take approximately one to two hours.
During this donation process, about a pint of blood is collected from the donor. It is then sent to the lab where it undergoes extensive testing, is separated into components and prepared for distribution to one of the hospitals we serve. Whole blood donors can donate every eight weeks at any one of our three donor centers or at one of our numerous community blood drives. The entire process normally takes 40-50 minutes to complete.
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