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Apheresis Room
In-House Blood Collection Room

Cell Separator

This state of the art equipment is used for collection of specific components like platelets and plasma by a process called Apheresis. Also used for therapeutic purposes such as plasma exchange programmes.


Donor Couches from Baxter

Extremely comfortable couches designed scientifically for blood donation relaxing and comfortable.


Blood Collection Monitors
Mobile Van for Outdoor Collections

Biomixers form Baxter

Automatic blood mixer and collection monitor with battery backup for mixing blood with the anticoagulant continuously during the collection process to optimise the quality of blood collected for preparation of components. It automatically stops the flow of blood when the target volume of blood is collected.


Mobile Van

Air-conditioned and fully equipped mobile bus for collection of blood at remote sites maintaining the same standards of quality.


Outdoor Collection Couches
Camps

Outdoor Collection

Light weight portable donation couches for outdoor blood collection camps.


Bio Sealer by Baxter

Ensures safe and sure sealing of tubing of the blood bags. This is used by RBB at all the camps as well as the inhouse donor room.

 



Component Preparation Room
Blood Storage

Cryofuge 6000

The Cryo Centrifuge is used for making blood components. The perfectly balanced rotor spins the blood and separates the Red Cells and Plasma.


Deep Freezers

Special freezers for storing Fresh Frozen Plasma - capability of temperatures upto - 86 Deg C.

Component Storage

Cold Room

Platelet Incubator & Agitator

Platelets are stored in this machine at 20-24 Deg C in a state of continuous agitation to prevent them from clumping together. Platelets can be stored this way for upto 5 days.


Cold Room

Walk-in cold room for storage of blood and its components is in the process of being built.


Blood Group Serology
Infectious Marker Lab

MITIS-2

The first fully automated state of the art machine in India for grouping and cross matching blood and blood components using Micro Plate technology as well as Glass Bead technology. This machine matches all parameters between the donors blood and the patients blood in 25 minutes and can handle 8 sets of different grouping and cross matching at a time.


Vitros ECi, from Johnson & Johnson

The enhanced Chemiluminescence, which is an internationally acclaimed technology proven to be superior to ELIsa is used for testing HIV I & II, Hepatitis B , Hepatitis C and Hepatitis B Core antibodies (total). The rotary blood bank is the first blood bank in india to use this technology for testing all units of blood. The Vitros ECi is a fully automated microprocessor that gives accurate and reliable results with no ambigous results.

Crossmatching and Issue Counter
Crossmatching


Bio Vue

Semi automated machine which does grouping cross matching of blood and blood components using Glass Bead Technology.

Diamed

Semiautomated machine which is used for grouping and crossmatching of blood and its components using the solid phase Gel Technology.

 

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