{"id":24450,"date":"2020-04-25T17:17:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T11:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/dak-appeals-recovered-coronavirus-patients-to-donate-plasma\/"},"modified":"2020-04-25T17:17:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T11:47:13","slug":"dak-appeals-recovered-coronavirus-patients-to-donate-plasma-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=24450","title":{"rendered":"DAK appeals recovered coronavirus patients to donate plasma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>\u201cPeople who have recovered from the disease would be saving lives by donating their plasma,\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong> Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Saturday appealed recovered coronavirus patients to donate plasma that can be used to treat serious cases of COVID-19.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPeople who have recovered from the disease would be saving lives by donating their plasma,\u201d said DAK President Dr Nisar ul Hassan.<br \/>\u201cPlasma therapy involves the transfusion of plasma from a recovered patient to a critical patient,\u201d he said.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe therapy is based on the premise that blood of a patient who has recovered from COVID-19 contains antibodies with the specific ability to fight the novel virus and help the critical patient to recover,\u201d he added.<br \/>Dr Nisar said convalescent plasma therapy is showing promising results and has become a ray of hope in the fight against the novel coronavirus pandemic.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCiting a study from China, he said plasma therapy was given to ten COVID-19 patients and the results were promising.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCountries like US, Iran and UK are already using plasma therapy with success,\u201d he added.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further said plasma therapy has shown encouraging results on four coronavirus patients in Delhi.<br \/>Dr Nisar said the process of donating plasma is similar to donating blood and takes about an hour.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe donor is connected to a cell-separating machine, also called apheresis machine that removes plasma, while simultaneously returning the remaining components (red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets) to the donor,\u201d he said.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBoth SMHS and SKIMS hospitals have these machines in place,\u201d he added.<br \/>Dr Nisar said plasma can be donated more frequently as compared to blood. It can be donated as often as twice a week.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPlasma from one person can be used in recovering two infected persons,\u201d he said.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Nisar said an antibody titer of at least 1:160 in the plasma of a donor is considered to be adequate for transfusion.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe number of the helpful antibodies rise steadily in the bloodstream of a recovered patient and peaks between 21 and 28 days after recovery,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPeople who have recovered from the disease would be saving lives by donating their plasma,\u201d Srinagar: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Saturday appealed recovered coronavirus patients to donate plasma that can be used to treat serious cases of COVID-19. \u201cPeople who have recovered from the disease would be saving lives by donating their plasma,\u201d said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}