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| COVID-19: SKIMS install sophisticated machinery for conducting Plasmapheresis | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, July 22: Continuing its remarkable endeavors to provide quality healthcare across Jammu and Kashmir, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Soura has installed sophisticated machinery for conducting Plasmapheresis for COVID-19 patients.
“This is an outstanding development. With these sophisticated machines, we would be now able to conduct Plasmapheresis for COVID-19 patients with some precision,” Director, SKIMS and Ex-Officio Secretary to Government, Dr. A.G Ahangar said. He said that SKIMS has started Plasmapheresis—using Spectra Optia Cell Separator aphaeresis machine which is the state-of-art machine used for Plasmapheresis in COVID patients. “The machine was procured on a war front basis to combat the COVID-19 crisis and the machine is fitted with a highly sophisticated connector a device,” he said.
Plasmapheresis has been used on a trial basis for COVID- 19 patients and has shown promising results. Plasmapheresis is a process in which the liquid part of the blood, or plasma, is separated from the blood cells. Typically, the plasma is replaced with another solution such as saline or albumin, or the plasma is treated and then returned to your body.
It may be recalled here that Plasma Therapy was started for COVID patients about a month back at SKIMS. The Director said that the use of this machine is ideal for the extraction of plasma in donors who have recovered from this disease. He said that Plasmapheresis helps to extract more plasma per operation and returns the blood cells of the donor to him.
“This way more plasma can be extracted and one -time a donor can donate for 2 patients. Since only Plasma is used a donor can donate plasma more frequently,” Dr. Ahangar said. Today, for the first time the procedure of Plasmapheresis was done on a doctor who had come to SKIMS Blood Bank as a volunteer plasma donor.
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