Transfusion Medicine

'Double donations' boosting national blood supply

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, April 29th, 2002

The blood bank in Las Vegas pulled in 7700 extra donations last year without having to recruit any extra donors - at a time when other parts of the country had shortages.

The trick: technology that lets one person give the amount of red blood cells normally obtained from two people without feeling woozy afterward.

Call it double-blood donation, a small but growing trend that blood bankers hope will boost the nation's tight supply - a supply many warn is likely to get even tighter with new restrictions on who can donate.

"We saw the writing on the wall because of the shrinking donor base and said, 'We have to do this now,'" said...

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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2002-04-29)

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