Blood Donation Processes : Removing Red Cells & Plasma from Blood Donations

Automated blood drawing machines save lives. Lean how blood is separated into red cells and plasma in this free video clip about how to donate blood.

Expert: Geoff Balenger
Bio: Geoff Balenger is a registered nursed at Stanford Blood Center in Palo Alto, California.
Filmmaker: Bing Hu

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[Dynamo242]

hey thats wat i saw when I donated blood today at my high schools blood drive, doesnt hurt at all. I gave 1 unit of red blood cells.

[redbike2008]

This looks like fun.

[210482fmj]

giving blood is not healthy for the donor.

[patman0250]

@MKroX2202 dude your acting like its a real pay check its only like 20 to 30$ and do you know how much they sell the plasma for??? try 1000$ per donation its only right we get something for saveing lives i mean these places are makeing so much money off the people that are donating and we the donars still get payd penys compared to what they make selling your plasma. so whats really wrong here is the people banking off the ones makeing the real sacrifice .. not us!

[patman0250]

@Stormy62485 aa you couldnt be more wrong!! i work at one and they go for direct human use ..i dont know where your getting ur info from but you need to check ur facts

[patman0250]

wow that machine looks way better then the one i go to lol

[oogrooq]

Expert village sucks so bad

[Chilax]

its great only thing i didnt like was the cold feeling you get when they inject the plasma and saline back in and the 10 extra minutes

[Stormy62485]

@419Unknown These are single use, disposable kits. No one's blood ever goes into you. It's your blood only going back into you.

[Stormy62485]

@MKroX2202 in the US, if you're payed for blood, it's not going to human transfusion. It's an FDA requirement that all blood donors, where their blood is going towards direct human transfusion, can not be paid, period. The people you hear that are getting paid are from plasma donor centers. Those places are different. Those donations from those centers never go to human transfusion. They go to medical research and pharmaceuticals.