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Old 12-30-2015, 12:13 PM
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Originally Posted by leftyf View Post
On my last visit, they said that they had people making phone calls trying to get donors over the holidays. I was wondering if it was the holidays and many donors limiting out on their 22 donations for the year. They were getting phone calls from the area hospitals needing platelets. I saw the mobiles at several locations getting whole blood.
I heard Blanca making a lot of these calls while I was in the donation chair and she did manage to rope a few including one man who came in for whole blood and then he was going to come back in a week to give platelets.

She also said something about the Federal Government lessening the strictures on blood donation volume! Guidance for Industry and FDA Review Staff: Collection of Platelets by Automated Methods This is not it but mentions some of the old standards if that is what she meant.