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Can you tell me where you go?
by jason_slack 13y ago
Can you tell me where you go?
- rdl 13y agohttp://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/ http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/ They have a nice one in Hillview (near the VMware offices and the 280 exit to the VC row on Sand Hill; it's amusing to be bled in both places...), and one in Menlo Park, and one in Mountain View on the "wrong" side of ECR. To donate platelets, you have to do a test for cytomegalovirus (I have no idea what this is, but am negative), and I think a few other minor things. The big issues are all the standard (over?)conservative blood safety issues from the Red Cross/etc. -- heterosexual forever, not in the UK more than a minimum amount of time, no tattoos in the past year, etc. The hard one for me was travel -- it's a year ban for malarial countries. I used to donate whole blood, but I'm A+, so there's not a huge demand. I did "whole warm fresh blood" transfusions a few times in war zones when the hospital ran out (since I was specialized IT support staff and not really needed for the emergency, but was in the hospital already). Apparently for trauma the new gold standard is WFB vs. component therapy, but outside of the military and maybe sports, it's hard to have a population of healthy pre-screened donors who will donate quickly.
- jason_slack 13y agoThanks for posing this. I am going to pursue it.