What happens during blood donation?
* You will complete a donor registration form that includes your name, address and a few other details. * You will be asked a few questions about your health. * You will go through a simple medical checkup including blood pressure, and pulse. * A drop of blood will be obtained from your finger tip to test for Hemoglobin% and your group. * You will proceed to a donor bed where your arm will be cleaned with antiseptic. * During the donation process, you will donate 350 ml or 450ml depending on your weight. * After the process is over, you will rest for about 5 minutes. * Following your donation, you will be given refreshment. * Please, remember to take your donor card.
A. Prior to the donation process, the donor center staff will take each donor s blood pressure, pulse and temperature, as well as test a small sample of blood to assure that giving blood will not make the donor anemic. A private verbal health questionnaire is also completed. Each donation utilizes a disposable sterile needle to take about a pint of blood from a vein in the donors arm. Each needle is discarded after donation. One cannot get AIDS or any infectious disease by donating blood. All blood donations are tested for blood type, antibodies, and for evidence of hepatitis B and C, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV 1 and 2, human T-lymphotropic viruses (HTLV) I and II and syphilis.
Prior to the donation process, the donor center staff will take each donors blood pressure, pulse and temperature, as well as test a small sample of blood to assure that giving blood will not make the donor anemic. A private verbal health questionnaire is also completed. Each donation utilizes a disposable sterile needle to take about a pint of blood from a vein in the donors arm. Each needle is discarded after donation. One cannot get AIDS or any infectious disease by donating blood. All blood donations are tested for blood type, antibodies, and for evidence of hepatitis B and C, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV 1 and 2, human T-lymphotropic viruses (HTLV) I and II and syphilis. The donors body replenishes the fluid lost from donation in 24 hours. It may take up to two months to replace the lost red blood cells. Whole blood can be donated once every eight weeks.
