Blood Preparation Market

Blood is a mixture of various component including Red Blood Cells (RBC), White Blood Cells (WBC), plasma, and platelets that circulate continuously inside the body to provide nutrition, and oxygen to body, and removes waste from the body. The average person has about 5 liters of blood and plasma that makes up about half of the content of the blood.

Many people need transfusion in various conditions such as operations, a severe infection or liver diseases which stops body from making blood, and bleeding disorders such as hemophilia or thrombocytopenia. According to World Health Organization (WHO), 108 million blood donation collected globally in 2014 which was an increase of 8.6 million voluntary blood donation from 2004 to 2012.

Previously, whole blood was the only preparation used to replace RBC, platelets, or coagulation factors. However, now a day’s whole blood is separated into various blood components and further derivatives can be obtained from plasma by fractionation procedure. Hence, one unit of blood can be useful for more than one patient.