Our Lab

 

This is a doorstep blood service to avoid troubles and worries of patient’s relatives whenever blood is required. A team of 10 persons is deputed for this task with proper monitoring system and training of blood handling and transportation.

 

Blood Centre has facility to prepare 'Single Donor Platelet' (SDP). Team of almost 400 voluntary platelet donors regularly donates platelets and we take care for its availability as and when required. Time to donate Platelets is 9 am to & 7 pm, every day.

 

Facility of Blood donor group confirmation and antibody screening is available in blood centre.

 

Component are separated from donor's blood. It is done on hi-tech centrifuges component extractors by scientific method. Plasma (liquid part of blood) is frozen rapidly by snap freezing. It preserves maximum clotting factors for patients benefit and can be used upto 1 year. Whereas platelets can be used up to 5 days. Also, leucodepletion is done whenever necessary, harmful white cells (Leucocytes) are removed from donor's blood. Leucodepleted blood is safer and more effective.

 

 

Cross-matching is a test done before a blood transfusion to determine if the donor's blood is compatible with the blood of an intended recipient. It is a kind of demonstration of what will happen if the particular unit of red cells is transfused to the patient. Cross Matching takes 45 minutes to 1 hour. Red cell units without cross matching can be given in dire emergency in certain situations. Such decisions are taken by the treating doctors in conjunction with the blood bank.

 

It's essentially a trial transfusion done in blood bank laboratory to see exactly how patient’s blood will react with donor blood. OR What will happen after transfusing the unit of red cells to the patient, is seen in the blood bank laboratory by performing a cross matching test. Only if this cross matching test shows compatible results, then the red cell unit is issued to the patient. However, few patients might face minor adverse effects of transfusion of blood components. These can occur in spite of compatibility testing being done correctly.

 

Only giving same group red cells is not sufficiently safe. They should be necessarily crossmatch compatible. Patient’s blood is mixed with donor’s blood and incubated at 37 degrees C to simulate patient’s body conditions. Some reagents are used in this procedure.