Urgently wanted: platelet dispenser in Linz for sick patients!

Urgently wanted: platelet dispenser in Linz for sick patients!

In Austria, an incredible 1,000 blood cannon is needed every day, but only a negligible part of only 3.5 percent of the person capable of donating participates in the donation. The Linz Blue Ralle currently report that their camps are full of all blood groups, but urgently donors for platelets, i.e. platelets, are urgently sought. These are essential for seriously ill patients and humans according to chemotherapy. Thrombocytes are donated in Linz and takes about an hour. However, interested donors need very good veins, such as Gerhard Schuster, senior physician in the Blue Rale, explained.

If you are a fever or antibiotics after an illness, you have to keep a waiting time of four weeks before the blood donation, while at least one week should be planned for regeneration in the event of an ordinary cold. Another interesting way to donate blood is the plasma donation. This differs from the full blood donation, because the donated blood is not led into a bag, but into a special Apherese machine. There the blood is centrifuged to separate the individual components. While the plasma is removed, the remaining blood components are immediately brought back into the body. This also means that a plasma donation is possible more frequently, namely every three days, and can be carried out a maximum of 60 donations in one year.

The importance of donations

With a complete process of registration, medical examination and resting break, interested parties can count on a total time of about one to one and a half hours for a plasma donation, as explained on BluePenden.de . It is clear that the blood donation evolution is not only of central importance for the treatment of acute medical cases, but also exceptionally urgently for the medical systems in Austria. Every healthy person can take the initiative and contribute to the rescue of life as a donor - a call that should be given more hearing in the country.