Table 1.
Cord bank practices
|
Group 1 Automated processing Plasma and red cell reduced or buffy coat production method |
Group 2 Manual processing Plasma and red cell reduced or buffy coat production method |
Group 3 Manual processing Plasma reduction |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of banks* | 6 | 13 | 1 |
| Type of processing system | |||
| Automated | 6 | ||
| Manual | 13 | 1 | |
| Product processing method at banks | |||
| Plasma and red cell reduction | 5 | 11 | |
| Buffy coat production | 1 | 2 | |
| Plasma reduction | 1 | ||
| Anticoagulant | |||
| ACD | 1 | ||
| CPD | 4 | 12 | 1 |
| CPDA | 1 | 1 | |
| Storage method at bank | |||
| Vapor phase | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| Liquid nitrogen | 5 | 8 | |
| Years of existence of bank | |||
| ≤10 y | 2 | 2 | |
| 11 – 15 y | 2 | 7 | 1 |
| 15 – 20 y | 2 | 4 |
*
Number of banks exceeds N = 16 because practice changes occurred over time and those banks are represented in the Table more than once