TABLE 2.

Estimated number of platelets, plasma, and cryoprecipitate units distributed, transfused, and outdated in 2015 (expressed in thousands)

Variable	Blood centers	Hospitals	Combined totals	95% CI	2013 Totals*	% Change 2015–2013
Distributed
Apheresis platelets	2034	200	2234	2040–2429	2318	−3.6
Whole-blood–derived PLTs†	189	13	202	146–257	130	55.0
Total platelets	2223	213	2436	2230–2642	2448	−0.5
Total plasma	3450	264	3714	3306–4121	4338	−14.4
Cryoprecipitate‡	1694	163	1857	1605–2109	978	89.9
Blood center outdates§	217	25	242	211–273	239	1.2
Transfused
Apheresis platelets		1807		1670–1943	2137	−15.4
Whole-blood–derived PLTs†		171		84–258	128	33.7
Total platelets (includes directed units)		1983		1816–2151	2281	−13.1
Total plasma		2727		2594–2859	3624	−24.8
Cryoprecipitate‡		1167		1021–1314	1095	6.6
Hospital outdates||		426		392–461	395	7.9

^*Totals for 2013 were obtained from Chung et al.⁹

^†Whole-blood–derived PLTs are expressed as apheresis equivalents.

^‡Cryoprecipitates are expressed as individual unit equivalents.

^§Blood center outdates are units that were outdated at nonhospital-based and hospital-based blood centers.

^||Hospital outdates are units that were outdated at transfusing hospitals.