title: Apheresis in a community hospital: six years' experience.
abstract: We present our six-year experience with apheresis in a community hospital in northern Virginia. A total of 2,892 procedures were done, including 2,232 thrombocytaphereses on normal donors for collection of platelets and 660 therapeutic plasma exchanges in patients having a variety of disorders. We hope our experience will be helpful to those who contemplate setting up similar programs.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000925:Anticoagulants / Q000008:administration & dosage; D001781:Blood Component Removal / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D006764:Hospitals, Community; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010956:Plasmapheresis; D014768:Virginia
chemical_list: D000925:Anticoagulants