EVALUATION OF PLATELET CONCENTRATES WITH THE NEW DIDECO BLOOD-CELL SEPARATOR - EXCEL

The Excel Cell Separator produced by Dideco represents a good compromi se between automation and Platelet efficiency. Platelet activation is a phenomenon that we can find with the concentrates of all cell separa tors. Although, the complement activation of Excel is extremely lower in comparison with the same data obtained using all the other cell sep arators, the 5-day storage is acceptable. It will be important to rese arch the bacteriological controls. Like the pH of the platelet bags, b ecause in certain cases it was too low. For the future if will be inte resting to study the possibility to predict the quantity of platelets collected having a system that is adaptable with the donor parameters.