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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
Donating platelets takes from 2 to 3 hours from when you go in from when you leave. Sometimes more if the machines are slow that day. Has something to do with the heat and how much H20 the donors have in their systems.
The whole blood donations fro entry to exit from the facility or blood mobile usually only take 20 minutes, if that.
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Tal, Kudos to you for donating platelets. I have donated them a few times several years ago, but I can no longer sit in the chair for that long. I still donate whole blood a few times a year. It really is not an unpleasant experience to donate whole blood, and I am kind of a wimp
. The whole process from signing in, answering the screening questions and the actual blood collection process takes me about 45-50 minutes.
What is interesting to me is how the screening technology has changed in the past few years. It used to be a paper questionnaire. Now up here in the Chicago area, the screening questions are answered on a tablet.