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Buffy Coat Method
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Buffy Coat Method
Platelet Poor Plasma
Step 1: Whole Blood is collected into a top and bottom pack and is centrifuged (hard spin) to produce platelet poor plasma, red blood cells and a buffy coat
Buffy Coat Layer
Red Cell Concentrate
Red Cell Additive
Images courtesy of Canadian Blood Services – Hospital Education Presentation 2004
Step 3: Pooled Buffy Coats are first pooled, then sterile docked to the platelet storage bags, followed by centrifugation at low speed
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Buffy Coats steriledocked together
Plasma
Pooling (Train Method)
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Platelet storage bag sterile docked to the Buff Coat “train”
• Buffy Coat Pool is loaded into buffy coat bag
• Supernatant (PRP) pressed through LR filter into storage bag
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