Doug Ross said:
Don't look at me when nurse Carol murders you for screwing up our ceremony
I have a question about the convalescent plasma.SoulSlaveAG2005 said:
Doc- and any other docs on this board.
We have seen about a 3-4x increase in orders for convalescent plasma over the past 2 weeks.
Any chance you would be willing to help reach out to your patients that are known recovered and help refer them to donate?
I'm happy to provide instructions. As this isn't a typical type of donor, we really need some help from those treating patients to get donors across the threshold.
eric76 said:I have a question about the convalescent plasma.SoulSlaveAG2005 said:
Doc- and any other docs on this board.
We have seen about a 3-4x increase in orders for convalescent plasma over the past 2 weeks.
Any chance you would be willing to help reach out to your patients that are known recovered and help refer them to donate?
I'm happy to provide instructions. As this isn't a typical type of donor, we really need some help from those treating patients to get donors across the threshold.
When I gave blood a couple of weeks ago, I showed them my release from isolation letter in case they might want to go for convalescent plasma instead. They just took my blood normally. Is there any difference in how you collect blood for convalescent plasma?
Logging onto their web site, I see that I'm not eligible to donate blood (or plasma) again until mid August. If I do have enough antibodies to make it worthwhile at present, how likely will that be in August?
Blue star for you AW AggieAW Aggie said:Doug Ross said:
Don't look at me when nurse Carol murders you for screwing up our ceremony
So what we have is:
- fiance is a nurse
- her name is Carol
- dr not yet dr ag is a friend and in the ceremony
- Doug Ross is in Dallas, dr not yet dr ag is in SA
Yep, that should be enough to make this thread Rule #1 compliant. To the outdoors board...
Sorry Doug Ross, this is definitely some trying times right now and just trying to add a little sense of humor to it.
ehh I would probably say 20-25%. The majority are under 50 years old and I am discharging the vast majority. If you are over 70 years old there is a greater than 75% chance you are admitted for a day or two if mild-moderate symptoms-I feel it is more precautionary. The majority of cases I am seeing is now young people,and the majority of them are fine. They just feel like **** but can go home.geoag58 said:
What percentage of your patients are over 70?
I tried asking this earlier as well, but didn't get anything on it. How does this current age group you see compare to what you were seeing early on in March and April? It seems like it's a younger demographic and what you said above also seems to support that, but I don't know what you were seeing at the beginning.Doug Ross said:ehh I would probably say 20-25%. The majority are under 50 years old and I am discharging the vast majority. If you are over 70 years old there is a greater than 75% chance you are admitted for a day or two if mild-moderate symptoms-I feel it is more precautionary. The majority of cases I am seeing is now young people,and the majority of them are fine. They just feel like **** but can go home.geoag58 said:
What percentage of your patients are over 70?
Doug Ross said:
Young people are still dying....young people are still developing ARDS. That is what scares me the most. I understand the economic downfall, but we can't open things up yet.
Yup I agree with this 100%. Definitely more of a younger demographic. Early on it seemed to be a lot of elderly nursing home patients. I think the nursing homes have done a great job of preventing the infiltration of covid into their facilities so those numbers have been very small. Still seeing some elderly patients but they all live at home, usually with a handful of younger family members. Majority is still younger patients, 30-50 years old.Touchless said:I tried asking this earlier as well, but didn't get anything on it. How does this current age group you see compare to what you were seeing early on in March and April? It seems like it's a younger demographic and what you said above also seems to support that, but I don't know what you were seeing at the beginning.Doug Ross said:ehh I would probably say 20-25%. The majority are under 50 years old and I am discharging the vast majority. If you are over 70 years old there is a greater than 75% chance you are admitted for a day or two if mild-moderate symptoms-I feel it is more precautionary. The majority of cases I am seeing is now young people,and the majority of them are fine. They just feel like **** but can go home.geoag58 said:
What percentage of your patients are over 70?
I don't guess it matters for me. I got my test results from giving blood two weeks ago. The antibody test is negative.SoulSlaveAG2005 said:eric76 said:I have a question about the convalescent plasma.SoulSlaveAG2005 said:
Doc- and any other docs on this board.
We have seen about a 3-4x increase in orders for convalescent plasma over the past 2 weeks.
Any chance you would be willing to help reach out to your patients that are known recovered and help refer them to donate?
I'm happy to provide instructions. As this isn't a typical type of donor, we really need some help from those treating patients to get donors across the threshold.
When I gave blood a couple of weeks ago, I showed them my release from isolation letter in case they might want to go for convalescent plasma instead. They just took my blood normally. Is there any difference in how you collect blood for convalescent plasma?
Logging onto their web site, I see that I'm not eligible to donate blood (or plasma) again until mid August. If I do have enough antibodies to make it worthwhile at present, how likely will that be in August?
Yes. Convalescent plasma is being drawn via apheresis. Most blood centers are utilizing either a Trima or Alyx machine to collect the plasma. It works by separating youR red cells and plasma in a single use kit, and returns the red cells back into your vein. Basically pulling plasma concentrate from you.
Whole blood is further processed by separation but doesn't have the same volume we can draw with apheresis. Our blood center has only validated convalescent plasma drawn via apheresis, so if we draw a recovered donors whole blood, we can't label the separated plasma as convalescent plasma. We are exploring it though due to antibody testing hopefully opening up some more donors to us.
Most centers also require you to pre register as convalescent plasma. That might be why they couldn't do anything at your last donation. We have to pre qualify every CVPLS donor by storing a copy of their positive test in their file. You should be able
To donate plasma 14-28 days from your last whole
Blood donation. You may want to give them a call and see if there is a pre qualifying process.
In regards to your antibody titer. No one really knows what the levels will be 30/60/90 days from recovery. We are storing a segment from each donation and subsequent donations so that our docs can study that question later down the road.
I have had 4 donors each make it to their 3rd donation (30/60/90 days from recovery) and I have not had any doc complain about the efficacy of the treatment based on any particular unit.
eric76 said:I don't guess it matters for me. I got my test results from giving blood two weeks ago. The antibody test is negative.SoulSlaveAG2005 said:eric76 said:I have a question about the convalescent plasma.SoulSlaveAG2005 said:
Doc- and any other docs on this board.
We have seen about a 3-4x increase in orders for convalescent plasma over the past 2 weeks.
Any chance you would be willing to help reach out to your patients that are known recovered and help refer them to donate?
I'm happy to provide instructions. As this isn't a typical type of donor, we really need some help from those treating patients to get donors across the threshold.
When I gave blood a couple of weeks ago, I showed them my release from isolation letter in case they might want to go for convalescent plasma instead. They just took my blood normally. Is there any difference in how you collect blood for convalescent plasma?
Logging onto their web site, I see that I'm not eligible to donate blood (or plasma) again until mid August. If I do have enough antibodies to make it worthwhile at present, how likely will that be in August?
Yes. Convalescent plasma is being drawn via apheresis. Most blood centers are utilizing either a Trima or Alyx machine to collect the plasma. It works by separating youR red cells and plasma in a single use kit, and returns the red cells back into your vein. Basically pulling plasma concentrate from you.
Whole blood is further processed by separation but doesn't have the same volume we can draw with apheresis. Our blood center has only validated convalescent plasma drawn via apheresis, so if we draw a recovered donors whole blood, we can't label the separated plasma as convalescent plasma. We are exploring it though due to antibody testing hopefully opening up some more donors to us.
Most centers also require you to pre register as convalescent plasma. That might be why they couldn't do anything at your last donation. We have to pre qualify every CVPLS donor by storing a copy of their positive test in their file. You should be able
To donate plasma 14-28 days from your last whole
Blood donation. You may want to give them a call and see if there is a pre qualifying process.
In regards to your antibody titer. No one really knows what the levels will be 30/60/90 days from recovery. We are storing a segment from each donation and subsequent donations so that our docs can study that question later down the road.
I have had 4 donors each make it to their 3rd donation (30/60/90 days from recovery) and I have not had any doc complain about the efficacy of the treatment based on any particular unit.
