The General Hospital of Elche has already prepared the necessary procedures to implement the bank collecting umbilical cord blood , a practice that with the approval of the general direction of management, Health Assessment and Research of the Department of Health since last September, but a few days ago that the center has the necessary refrigeration equipment to conserve the liquid.
Therefore, the center plans to start Elche withdrawals from next Monday between the mothers who so wish. "Pregnant women are informed of this possibility by midwives in the health center, which will give all the information and are seek informed consent. Here is where women decide what they can collect the cord blood and cases where it is contraindicated, for example, among women who suffer from some diseases, including those that have given birth less than 34 weeks of gestation or in multiple pregnancies, "said Alfredo Millá, section chief in the area of \u200b\u200bObstetrics General Hospital Elche.
Therefore, service members of Gynecology and Obstetrics and Haematology, key stakeholders in carrying out this process, last week attended a training lecture given by Dr. Pilar Solbes, member of the Center Transfusion of Valencia and the seat of Cord Blood Bank , which will target the extractions carried out in Elche. Solbes told the audience the various protocols for action and documentation required to perform the extractions.
The extraction of the blood does not take more than a few minutes and once obtained it will be stored in a refrigerator and completed documents required to accompany the bags to the Transfusion Centre of Alicante, with professionals of this organism in charge of forwarding them to Bank Umbilical Cord Blood Transfusion Center Valencia.
Team members are expected Elche daily blood collection and forwarding it to the end of each day Transfusion Center for storage and use anywhere in the country. "It's important that mothers are aware that this type of donation not mean having the cord itself for future children, but will be autonomous transplant coordinators who identify potential recipients of blood in our country or abroad. The umbilical cord blood will be used for clinical or therapeutic use and research, "said Miller, who stressed that the process of cord blood collection is not only available of pregnant women assigned to General Hospital but to all women who want to make the donation and that, therefore, may give birth in the middle of the street gardens and Mills.
The refrigeration unit is already physically in the hospital delivery area of \u200b\u200bElche, where he recorded a daily average of four or five deliveries. The importance of collecting cord blood is that it contains stem cells that are vital for the renewal of blood cells in patients who have impaired bone marrow.
Once in the Community and four in the province
The Valencian Community has at present eleven hospitals that are approved for the extraction of umbilical cord blood, and of these, four are in the province of Alicante. Specifically, the centers licensed to perform these extractions are La Fe, La Ribera, La Plana, The Clinic, Doctor Peset, Lluis Alcanyis, General de Castellón, General de Alicante, San Juan de Alicante, Hospital de la Vega Baja (Orihuela) and Hospital de Torrevieja. They will be joined on Monday the General Hospital of Elche which takes months to manage the relevant authorization from the Department of Health, as unwieldy accreditation requires permits to confirm the ability of the clinic in question to perform the extractions. The last step was the purchase of refrigeration equipment in the hospital Elche store the blood until the time comes to be forwarded to the Transfusion Centre of Valencia.
Source: diarioinformacion.com
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