WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR

BLOOD AFTER A DONATION?

Claudia Larissa Aguilar Rivas
DONATED BLOOD
Donation

Processing

The testing

Storage

Distribution
DONATION
The principal motivation to donate blood should be
help other people.

 Be in good general health and feeling well*

 Be at least 18-years-old in most states,

 Weigh at least 110 lbs.

MAIN INTERVIEW
PROCESSING

Recolection of
Phlebotomy
total blood
 Rose of
bengal test
Hematocrit
Group and rh
blood.

Blood is
collected into a
sterile bag and
labelled
Syphilis test.
TESTING
 In this process blood suffers different tests are
carried out to the units of blood that we received.

CHAGAS
HIV VHB VHC
DISAESE

•It´s trasmisible by a
•Attacks the inmune •Attacks the liver vector bug that
system (produces cancer or carries the tropical
•Destroys the CD4 failure)
cells parasite.
Main forms of contagious
STORAGE
 After the testing and results are done.
 The units sustaible for the transfusion are labeled
and stored.
 Routine blood storage is 42 days in fridges at 6°C
stored packed red blood cells.
 The plasm are frozen and stored in freezers for up
to one year.
 Plaquets expire in 5 days.
DISTRIBUTION
 Starts when the patient needs a blood
transfusion.
 From the bank of blood, in the first step
realized a cross-test to verify the package
will be accepted for the patient

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WHAT´S THE TYPE OF BLOOD?
1.- 3.-

B B A B

2.-
4.-

B O O A
 WHO GIVES TO WHO?
RECEPT
OR DONOR
O- O+ A- A+ B- B+ AB- AB+
O-
O+
A-
A+
B-
B+
AB-
AB+
RECEPT
OR DONOR
O- O+ A- A+ B- B+ AB- AB+

O- X

O+ X X

A- X X

A+ X X X X

B- X X

B+ X X X X

AB- X X X X

AB+ X X X X X X X X