Show doctors store blood plasma for emergency Emerge ticy program prepares to aid victims of disasters on short notice Me released Helea leased aed by western newspaper union NEW YORK N Y large scale collection of blood plasma by the american red cross for the united states navy and army will be the proving ground for the development of a nationwide nation wide network of hospital blood banks dr charles R drew medical supervisor of the plasma division of the blood transfusion association predicts he says this program was instituted to acquire stores of dried and liquid plasma both for the armed forces and for use in disasters involving civilians plasma can be substituted for whole blood in transfusions for treatment of many cases of injury shock and illness in case of need the program could be expanded rapidly to reach thousands of donors in major cities dr drew explains As the technique and facilities tor for blood and plasma collection improve the use of plasma or serum undoubtedly will increase plasma banks and blood banks are being more and more widely used in hospitals throughout the country stored in philadelphia at the present time blood tor for the national defense plasma program ls Is being collected only in new york city dr drew continued the blood is being sent to laboratories in philadelphia for processing into dried plasma dried plasma is easler easier to store and transport than the liquid form it Is less susceptible to infection because the moisture necessary to most bacteria life has been withdrawn dried plasma is restored to liquid form before it Is administered in transfusions both liquid and dried plasma may be r stored tor for long periods of time even several years neither form requires typing to an individual patients requirements when drawn from a su supply aply made up of plasma from many individuals the presbyterian hospital blood bank Is representative of at modern blood plasma banks the vault a uit is a special westinghouse refrigerator g aerator developed by the times appliance C company to meet the associations requirements A constant evenly distributed temperature and absence of vibration is essential in the plasma technique dr drew said maintain even temperature special controls of at the Presby presbyterian terl blood bank refrigerator main maintain I 1 bin the temperature within one tenth of one degree of degrees fahrenheit the ideal cold point tor for blood and plasma storage the heart of the blood bank Is the pooling room a glassed te in cubicle in which the plasma is drawn oil off a after the corpuscles corpus cles have settled the presbyterian hospital pooling room is bathed in the bacteria de straying ying rays of three Sterl lamps one lamp casts a curtain of ultraviolet rays between technicians and containers and tubes with which they draw off and bottle the plasma specifications of this refrigeration lamp and air conditioning equipment for blood banks have been recommended to the national research council which is acting at the request of the navy army and public health administration 1 al I 1 1 s ay 0 A trained technician li Is shown hwn drawing plasma from a bottle of f wood ultraviolet rays ray from arm three Steril lamps araps protect prefect the blood plim plasma from rm bacteria in the air during burld the die process |