Thread: Blood Donation Facts

Basic Requirements to donate blood:

• Be in generally good health and feeling well.
• Be at least 17 years of age; upper age 60 (420d*).
• Weigh at least 110 pounds (45 kg).
• Pulse: 80 to 100 beats/min and regular.
• Temperature: Should not exceed 99.5 (37.5c).
• Blood Pressure: acceptable range is 160/90 to 110/60.
• Skin: the venipuncture site should be free of any lesion or scar of needle pricks indicative of addiction to narcotics or frequent Blood donation (as in the case of professional Blood donors).

Donation Frequency

• Whole Blood donors may donate every 56 days.
• Plasma donors may donate twice a week (max. every 48 hours.)
• Platelet donors may donate a maximum of 24 times per year.
• Other specialized donations are subject to other rules.

Source: Eblooddonors.com

Useful Info.

Where is the Blood Bank manager of IBF?

These are Not Indian standards.Most of them are same just slight variations.

OK

Age : 18 + to 60 -
BP : 110/70 to 130/90
Weight : Wohle Blood donor - 45 kgs & Component donors - 55 kgs
(generally it is 7ml / kg)
HB : 12+

rest all are same

Now Donation frequency

Whole Blood : 90 days
Component : 90 days

as described in the above post about RBC,WBC,Pltlt etc.. this is not widely done in India here we take whole blood and then seperate its components there are only 7 places in India where direct componenet is extracted.

I might have heard this wrong but do they take the components/plasma
and then inject the blood back into the donor? maybe it was a movie...

Originally Posted by masaladosa

I might have heard this wrong but do they take the components/plasma
and then inject the blood back into the donor? maybe it was a movie...

What you told is partially correct.

Now a days systems have come which will draw the blood from the donor and seperate and take what is needed and then will send the rest back tot the donor, but this is automated process. There is manual method for this.

Else if like in normal once the whole blood is taken out then seperated and the left plasma normally will not infuse back to donor only if the donor is having some problems then it will be done but this method will be done 1 in 1,00,000 people

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