The Excel Cell Separator produced by Dideco represents a good compromise between automation and Platelet efficiency. Platelet activation is a phenomenon that we can find with the concentrates of all cell separators. Although, the complement activation of Excel is extremely lower in comparison with the same data obtained using all the other cell separators, the 5-day storage is acceptable. It will be important to research the bacteriological controls. Like the pH of the platelet bags, because in certain cases it was too low. For the future it will be interesting to study the possibility to predict the quantity of platelets collected having a system that is adaptable with the donor parameters.
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