You may have heard all about cord blood donation and now want to know what happens after the umbilical cord. It takes the work of hospital staff, as well as the cord blood bank. It takes teamwork, but none of it would be possible if it were not for you. Once the decision to donate the cord blood that is the time to make preparations by calling the cord blood bank to make them aware of its decision.
Once the baby is born, the placenta is usually discarded, but if you decide to donate cord blood, the blood bank staff will take the placenta to a laboratory. We will work to collect blood from the cable and put it in a sterile bag.
Small samples are removed from the sterile bag to get information about the blood type and test sample. Then the umbilical cord gets ready for frozen. You may need to remove the excess red blood cells and plasma in order to reduce the volume of each units of cord blood. The rest is almost entirely blood nucleated who were present when the umbilical cord has been initially collected. This includes stem cells. Cells are protected from freezing. Once the umbilical cord is frozen in liquid nitrogen, freezer is available for immediate access when needed.
When a patient suffering from an illness or disease was diagnosed and searches for medical treatment, the staff can notify the transplant center to request a cord blood unit combined. If there is a match and the transplant center then checks all information delivered immediately before the transplant unit at the hospital.
There are several ways that the cord blood unit is delivered. To learn more about cord blood visit www.cord-blood-banking.org
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