Blood Services

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To access the BLOODMOBILE SCHEDULES for Sandusky and Seneca Counties, visit http://www.givebloodtoday.org/ and click on Blood Drives.

THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW

You can donate every 56 days.

The donation process takes slightly over an hour.

You should eat prior to donating.

Minimum age 17, no maximum.

Minimum weight 110, maximum 350.

Don't donate with a cold, sore throat, or flu symptoms.

Anti-inflammatory Rx OK (most arthritis drugs).

Heart attack/Stroke OK (6 months - 1 year if no restrictions on physical activity and no heart medicine except aspirin).

High blood pressure OK if no higher than 180/100 with or without medications.

Tylenol, aspirin, vitamins, birth control all OK.

Tattoo or blood transfusion - defer for one year.

Click here to view more commonly asked questions about donating blood.

Saturday blood collections

Give blood, get cookies!

LAST YEAR THE SANDUSKY COUNTY RED CROSS COLLECTED
MORE THAN 4300 UNITS OF BLOOD!

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Blood Services Volunteer Training
Regulated functions are tasks that the Federal Food and Drug Administration has determined affect the safety, quality, purity, or potency of blood products. Regulated functions performed at a mobile collection site include Registration, Pak table, and Physical Findings (weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and hemoglobin determination). These critical tasks assure that our nation's blood supply is the safest in the world!

Federal regulations require that American Red Cross Blood Service volunteers performing a regulated function pass both the "Volunteer Fundamentals" class and individual task training for the regulated function they perform. Training sessions are approximately four hours.

Volunteers performing non-regulated functions are NOT required to attend a training session. Non-regulated functions are: pre-check computer, loaders, greeters, donor room escorts and post-donation canteen. Non-regulated functions are important functions that have been incorporated into the donation process to assure that donors are safe and have a pleasant donor experience.

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Training dates for regulated functions

Contact the office at 332-5574 to register.

Cancellation of Training Classes

When the weather is inclement weather, all students or blood donors should tune into WFRO (99.1 FM) for class and blood collection cancellation notification. No prepaid dues will be refunded; all classes will be rescheduled.

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American Red Cross in Sandusky County
1245 Napoleon Street
Fremont, Ohio 43420
419.332-5574 / 419.332-5598 Fax
arcsandco@sbcglobal.net Email

American Red Cross in Seneca County
870 W Market
Tiffin, OH 44883
419.447-1424
http://redcrosssenecacounty.org/index.html

Last updated: 12/04/07