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By FRANK L. CHRISTLIEB
Battalion Reporter
For five years a small, cinder
block building on Old College
Main has been a source of spend
ing money for Texas A&M Univer
sity students who aren’t appalled
by blood or sharp needles.
At Plasma Products Inc. of
Texas a student can spend a work-
ee IV2 hours donating plasma —
and receive $8 for doing it.
Open from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Monday through Friday, the cen
ter currently employs a staff of five
omen trained to prepare donors,
to withdraw blood and to separate
plasma from it. None of these staff
members are doctors or nurses.
They’ve had only on-the-job
training.
Manager Avis Ramirez said
even though the center is open to
[people between 18 and 65, about
99.9 percent of the donors are
college students.”
A donor must also have a certain
pulse rate, temperature and blood
^pressure, which are each taken ev
ery time he comes in. A donor
must weigh at least 110 pounds,
although there is no upper limit on
weight.
Each donor goes through the
same steps to give plasma:
| — A prospective donor must
■pass a physical, given by one of
$two doctors who are at the center
If twice a week, before he can
| donate.
I — The donor must then make
. an appointment to give plasma.
I — Blood pressure, temperature
and weight are taken when the
donor comes in.
, — About a pint of blood is taken
■ j out of one arm intravenously while
the donor is lying down,
y — The donor’s name and a de
signated number are put on the
: plastic bag the blood flows into.
| — The hag is put into a refriger
ated centrifuge which spins the
blood at about 5,000 rpm, causing
the red blood cells to settle at the
bottom of the bag and the plasma
1 cells to float to the top.
— The plasma is siphoned out of
the bag into a sterile bottle while
the blood cells are mixed with a
saline solution and returned to the
donor.
— This entire process is re
peated so that a total amount of
one unit of plasma is withdrawn.
Ramirez said a person can give
plasma only twice a week, and if
he donates twice, there must be a
minimum of 48 hours between the
two donations. She said the center
recently changed its donation
policy, which now requires that
donors make appointments to give
plasma, whereas before, they
could donate whenever they
wanted to.
One reason for this, she said, is
the price of plasma has gone
down, so the companies who buy
the plasma are paying the center
less for it. This has caused the cen
ter to take less donors and to re
duce the payment from $10 to $8.
Dr. John Moore, an A.P. Beutel
Health Center staff member who
gives physicals at the plasma cen
ter, said the price has gone down
because “the supply of plasma is
overtaking the demand for it. ”
He said these privately-owned
centers are increasing in number,
causing a large increase of avail
able plasma.
Possible dangers in the plasma
giving process include mix-ups
during blood transfer, the de
velopment of hematomas, swell
ings which may form if blood does
not flow freely back into veins.
Dr. C.B. Goswick, director of
the health center, said there are
risks in the program, but the dan
gers are remote and problems are
“few and far between.”
Some donors may experience
reactions during the process, in
cluding pallor, faintness, nausea
or sweating. Goswick said these
are only “minor discomforts”
which accompany normal blood
and plasma donations.
The center is licensed by the
Food and Drug Administration
and receives a “surprise inspec
tion” once a year, Ramirez said.
Ted Krum, a Texas A&M stu-
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