blood storage
Banked donation supply
Blood storage is the preservation of donated blood and blood components for later medical use.
Blood banks maintain supplies of whole blood, plasma, and platelets under controlled conditions—red blood cells can be refrigerated for about six weeks, while frozen plasma lasts much longer.
The hospital's blood storage facilities were at capacity after the emergency donation drive.
- transfusionsMedical blood transfers
- cryopreservationLow-temperature biological preservation
- cold chain logisticsTemperature-maintained distribution system
- shelf lifeUsable storage duration
- expiration dateFinal day of validity
anticoagulants · emergency supply · refrigeration · plasma · platelets · trauma care · hemoglobin · stem cells · surgical procedures · packed cells · neonatal care · donation center · clotting factors · cancer therapy · apheresis · stem cell therapy · crossmatching · immunotherapy
- blood bankingtransfusion, crossmatch, crossmatching, phlebotomy, donor
- cryogenicsliquid nitrogen, cryogenic, cryogenics, cryostat, liquid helium
- Freezingfreezing, flash freezing, deep freezing, quick freeze, blast freezing
- spleenspleen, splenectomy, splenic, enlarged spleen, ruptured spleen