the liquid component
Plasma.
The pale liquid carrying proteins, salts and clotting factors, about 55% of your blood volume.
Why patients need it
Burns, liver disease, and clotting-factor patients need plasma. It can be frozen and stored up to a year, unlike platelets.
How it's donated
Separated from whole-blood donations, or given directly via apheresis. Recovered plasma is frozen at the centre within hours.
Eligibility
Standard rules; apheresis plasma has extra checks. AB donors are the universal plasma donors.
Eligibility is the centre's call.Every donation, whatever the component, happens only at a licensed blood centre after their screening on the day. Our guides describe the general national rules; they never override a centre's medical decision.
Every component starts with a registered donor
Two minutes to join the register. We contact you only when a patient near you needs what you have.
Register as a donor