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hey youtube it's Luke here from oz med student now I've got a pretty exciting video to bring to you guys today just this morning I went down to the blood bank and for the very first time I donated plasma and platelets so I'll jump straight into the video once you I want to talk you through it and show you the experience and what it's like for those of you out there who are thinking about donating it's something that's really important and as a future medical professional it gives us the opportunity to have treatments which we can give to really really sick patients who are going to be much worse off otherwise and in some cases even pass away so thank you for donating if you choose to donate if not here's a bit of information to show you what the process is like and maybe you can start some conversations with other people about donating blood because it's certainly a really great thing to do so here we are at the blood bank the Australian Red Cross I've got my arm out left arm out getting set up for the donation here so this lady's just swab my skin with an antibacterial swab right over the vein in the cubital fossa which you can see is poking out there so that one right in the middle that's what she's going to be aiming for with the needle so when you go to have a blood donation they take you in you have to answer a series of questions just to make sure you're a suitable donor and that you're not going to have any added risks in your blood such as any blood-borne infections and things like that so if you're not sure pop down at the Red Cross have a chat to them and they'll be able to answer any questions now they're just about to start the needle here you can see she's setting up very nearly ready to go coming over checking that I'm all ready to go and here we are let's get started you can see she's a bit of an expert as concentrate in wasn't too painful at all straight into that little vein there and she's taking blood so I'll talk to you through the blood she's taking here that's an F Peter one of the purple it's a called a full blood examination so they can check for your white cells which your immune cells to see if there's any signs of infection they can make sure you're not anemic or lon red blood cells either they also test your you a knees or your urea and electrolytes so they can look at your renal function they can look at all the electrolytes in your blood as well so they can check to see if your sodium is too low or too high or if your potassium levels are too low if I started any faces and just texted back continued support and their biochemistry yeah nanofy and we'll check them again okay just to make sure everything's all right somebody put you into it touch the machine so they've got the needle it's attached to that green clip that's called a butterfly clip and then it's a chat attached to some tubing which they're about to hook up to the machine now they just open that white clamp which lets the blood flow through and then hooking up the tubing which will then and run through quite a lengthy cord up to this machine which I'll show you shortly so you can see there the Bloods just started to trickle through the machine that shows that the lines Peyton there's no blockages and it's ready to go so from a donor point of view you just get to lie here you relax your feet are up you could pump your wrists a few times to get things going to community oh yeah mental born or spencer's so we have there to be challenging YouTube uses impossible status parenting about the assassins rectum so we went to be intuitive Maximus or sales statistics in myself so once we get to 280 our salespeople and message so far cannot store and make their so much on the sales part team because we weren't in 686 676 limited to between a psychic ability and differences so it takes somewhat from it give yourself what's left of all back in the Starkey okay well the cuffs tightening distill to squeeze the powerful axis I think in the boxes we're sure so I might have been difficult to hear some of what the nurse was saying there but it's hooked up to the machine yep they have you can see on the left there that's the pump usually rotates that sucks the bladder you can see it's spinning there it then runs into the centrifuge which is designed to spin the blood so the components of blood your red cells which in this donation will stay in you they get split apart from your plasma and within that are your platelets so those plasma and platelets will spin out in the centrifuge they're then collected into this bag and your red blood cells are returned to you so when this is happening you just have to sit there squeezing and just take your time put your feet up yeah can see that's the butterfly clip it's nice and neatly into the vein they tape it down you've got your tubing which is nice and secure so you just get to sit there rest your arm comfortably and put your feet up while this happens takes about thirty five minutes or so mine today took me thirty five minutes it can you know be 5-10 minutes either side of that but it's not usually too long they give you a nice drink while you're waiting so you can stay hydrated and let the machine do its thing so that's a good view of the pump there you can see it's spinning on the Left the large grey circular thing that's right in the middle there is the centrifuge --an you can see the platelets and the plasma just coming through so there it is starting to fill up the bag it looks a bit like urine to color a urine you can see that it's starting to flow now after it's been centrifuge by that grey spinning machine that turns rapidly so you can see it's nice and foamy it's a little bit of a foamy layer on top that's what happens as it separates out there's a bit of air in the centrifuge and you get the plasma churning it will be the foam which will settle in the bag now you can see the needle placement right here you can see the needle is is not actually in line with my arm now the nurse did very a very good job at this so for anyone interested or who might be putting needles in someone down the track you notice that you don't necessarily follow the the line of the needle with the line of the arm what you need to aim for is the line of the vein so that the nurse has done that quite well is lined up with the vein which makes sure that it stays inside the vein and doesn't poke through to the other side one of the things I've learned in medical school is that you'll have more success if you go for a vein that you can feel as opposed to one that you can see so feel for that nice juicy bouncy vein and you're maximize your chance of success so we're getting a bit later on in the donation here you can see the bag is starting to fill up the plasma is actually quite dark-colored especially when it's in a nice thick bag like that now that's just the plasma the red cells have been periodically separated and then actually returned back through me so every now and then the machine will turn off and the red cells will get flushed through with a bit of saline which you can see hanging in the bag up there on the right so as that happens you feel quite a cold sensation coming back up through the vein and into your circulation again they also give you about five hundred mils of say lines straight through the trip to make sure that you don't get too dehydrated so this is it the donations done the needle got taken out you just put a bit of pressure over this site and you get a bandage wrap around your arm which you leave on for a few hours in Australia they're very generous here as well the Australian Red Cross they give you muffin juice and they thank you for out.when so I urge you guys to donate if you can it's a great thing to do and it's really helpful for those in need