Facts About Blood Fractionation

Written on June 2, 2010 – 3:26 am | by Ashley Johnson

Bio-medicine, life-sciences research and the pharmaceutical industry have seen a tremendous development in the last decades, and they continue to expand as we speak. Each minute, a research team works with biological and blood samples to determine the cause of a disease, to establish the health state of a patient or to test a new drug which may save the life of millions.

Blood fractionation is one of the basic procedures these industries employ in order to separate blood samples into their primary constituents. Because even though blood may look and feel like a single substance, it is in fact a combination of serum with two type of cells: leukocytes, more widely known as white cells – responsible with the defense of the organisms against diseases, and red cells – or erythrocytes, which give blood its color and are responsible among others with the transportation and distribution of oxygen and nourishment throughout the body.

Blood fractionation is used on a large scale by hospitals, research facilities and pharmaceutical companies in order to diagnose diseases, test the reaction of blood cells to new substances with curative properties, to establish the general health state of an organism and even discover chemical unbalances which affect the well-being of patients.

In the not so distant past, the operation was done manually by specially trained lab personnel, employing either chemical or mechanical techniques and using technology which made results approximate at best. Moreover, it involved close supervision in order to prevent mixing up samples, to ensure proper labeling and manipulation.

The chemical method however, implies the contamination of the blood sample with the foreign agent meant to segregate the blood into its components, thus altering the composition of the sample. The mechanical method uses special devices called centrifuge to separate the blood components by the use of gravity.

However, modern science and technology have made make available automated blood fractionation technologies, which replace the laborious and time consuming work of medical personnel with the precision, efficiency and accuracy of modern technology.Using such technologies allows medical facility managers to reassign resources more efficiently and permits medical specialists to focus on the more important task of caring for the sick and those accessing health care services.

However, modern science and technology have made available for health care facilities managers automated blood fractionation technologies, which replace the laborious and time consuming work of medical personnel with the precision, efficiency and accuracy of modern technology. Using such technologies allows managers to reassign resources more efficiently and permits medical specialists to focus on the more important task of caring for the sick and those accessing health care services.

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