BACKGROUND The collection of platelets by apheresis is considered as a very great progress in transfusion medicine. In present era, many automated cell separation are available each model has tried to improve productivity, quality of plateletpheresis. Further various studies have been done to correlate the quality of platelet concentrates. Also, various biochemical studies have been done on pla...

In the past, anaemia in patients with established coronary artery disease, especially acute anaemia as a result of bleeding, has been treated with a relatively liberal use of allogenic red blood cell (RBC) transfusions. RBC transfusions are believed to increase oxygen delivery by increasing haemoglobin concentration. Therefore, transfusion would seem to be a logical approach, as anaemia is asso...

A capillary tube holder, devised to minimize shadow effects during microscopic examination of haematocrit capillary tubes for trypanosomes, is described. A blood dispenser, designed to remove trypanosomes from centrifuged tubes, resulted in thinner smears of trypanosomes covering a smaller area. The anterior end of centrifuged trypanosomes was abnormally thickened and the kinetoplast displaced ...