Blood bank
A blood bank is a kind of storage facility for all types of blood . There are different storage requirements and storage periods for the different types of blood preserves (erythrocyte preserves, whole blood preserves, thrombocytes ). Certain blood reserves have to be constantly moved, others can be frozen.
Hospitals
Every hospital maintains a small blood bank to provide for their own needs. The size of such a blood bank depends on the size of the hospital and the fact whether it is a specialized clinic that frequently performs operations with high expected blood losses. In such a blood bank mostly red cell concentrates and platelets are kept. However, the need must be determined very precisely, since erythrocytes can no longer be used after 42 days and platelets after 4 days. Only blood plasma , which can be frozen for up to two years, is easier to handle. University clinics, on the other hand, usually maintain more extensive blood banks, as they partially use the blood that is transported through theanonymous self-exclusion is not approved for donation, use it for experimental purposes. When a request is made, the required blood is driven by car (including an ambulance ) to the relevant hospital, so that the required donation can be at each hospital of the supplying blood bank within three hours. For this purpose there is an emergency blood service in Germany in some federal states, which transports the individual products with special rights if necessary .
Blood bank operators
There are various blood bank operators in Austria , the Austrian Red Cross is seen as the largest operator. The Innsbruck blood bank was certified in 1997 as the first regional blood bank in Austria and one of the first blood banks in Europe to comply with the ÖNORM EN ISO 9001 quality management standard. Approx. 50,000 whole blood donations, 1,000 autologous blood donations and 6,000 preserved platelet concentrates are collected annually in the Austrian state of Tyrol . In Germany, too, there are different operators of blood banks; The German Red Cross , among others, manages larger of these deposits . There are roughly two to three blood banks per federal state; in North Rhine-Westphalia, for example, in Hagen, Münster and Ratingen. In the Free State of Bavaria, the central blood bank of the Bavarian Red Cross is located in Wiesentheid in Lower Franconia .
