Proceso de Donación
No hay forma de que podamos retribuir su generosidad, que salva vidas, pero nuestro personal se encarga de que el proceso de donación de sangre sea lo más rápido y cómodo posible para todos nuestros donantes. Contamos con televisores de pantalla grande en nuestra sala de donantes y ofrecemos un refrigerio después de que realices tu donación. También hemos implementado una forma sencilla de medir tu nivel de hemoglobina sin necesidad de pincharte el dedo.
Para saber si eres puede donar, consulte nuestra preguntas frecuentes. Entonces programa una cita a una hora que sea cuando te venga bien.
No necesitarás hacerte una prueba de COVID-19 para donar sangre. El virus no se transmite a través de la sangre, por lo que es totalmente seguro donar sangre sin hacerse una prueba. Sin embargo, los donantes deben sentirse bien cuando acudan a su cita programada.
Blood Donor Process
Before You Donate
Be sure to eat something before coming to donate. When you arrive, we’ll get you registered and screened.
Registration
We will need your photo ID, and you’ll receive a questionnaire about your medical history.
Screening
To confirm your eligibility to donate, a donor services staff member will review your medical history with you confidentially. We will also check your temperature, pulse, blood pressure and hemoglobin level. Blood Donor Services has implemented a new instrument to check hemoglobin levels that does not require a fingerstick. This instrument clips gently on the donor’s thumb and shines a light around the thumb to obtain a hemoglobin reading. We are able to get an accurate reading for most donors without a fingerstick.
What to Expect
First, a technician will swab and sterilize the inside of your elbow and then carefully insert a sterile needle into a vein. It will feel like a small pinch.
If you are donating whole blood, you will likely be in and out the door within 30 minutes. The donation itself takes only about 8-10 minutes to collect one unit (a pint) of blood. Whole blood donors are eligible to give blood every eight weeks. We are especially grateful to our donors who visit us several times a year.
If you are donating platelets, the process takes about an hour and a half, and the donation itself takes about 45 minutes to an hour. This is a special process in which your blood is drawn and separated into its different components through an apheresis machine. The machine removes the platelets and some plasma from your blood, and then returns the rest of the blood to you. If your platelet count is high enough, you will be eligible to donate a second bag of platelets.
Those extra 15 minutes to donate help protect the safety of our patients who need more than one unit of platelets. Why? It’s important for patients to receive blood products from the fewest number of donors to reduce the likelihood that their body will have a bad reaction to the foreign antigens on other people’s blood and platelets. Donors are eligible to give platelets every two weeks, up to 24 times a year. We are so thankful for donors who visit us regularly.
Después de hacer tu donación
Un miembro del personal le retirará la aguja y le vendará el brazo con una venda estéril. Te invitamos a que disfrutes de unos refrigerios. Recibirás un vale de estacionamiento si donas sangre en el centro de donación de sangre del hospital. Si donas sangre en una campaña móvil de donación de sangre, no necesitarás un vale de estacionamiento.
