{"id":30222,"date":"2020-07-22T18:08:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T12:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=30222"},"modified":"2020-07-22T18:08:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T12:38:39","slug":"covid-19-skims-installs-sophisticated-machinery-for-conducting-plasmapheresis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=30222","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: SKIMS installs sophisticated machinery for conducting Plasmapheresis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Doctors, paramedics hail the Director for installing state-of-the-art medical equipment<\/em>
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Srinagar<\/strong>: Continuing its remarkable endeavours to provide quality healthcare across Jammu and Kashmir, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Soura has installed sophisticated machinery for conducting plasmapheresis for COVID-19 patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is an outstanding development. With these sophisticated machines, we would be now able to conduct plasmapheresis for COVID-19 patients with some precision,\u201d Director, SKIMS and Ex-Officio Secretary to Government, Dr A.G Ahangar said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

He said that SKIMS has started plasmapheresis\u2014using Spectra Optia Cell Separator apheresis machine which is the state-of-art machine used for plasmapheresis in COVID patients.
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\u201cThe machine was procured on a war front basis to combat the COVID-19 crisis and the machine is fitted with a highly sophisticated connector device,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Plasmapheresis has been used on a trial basis for COVID- 19 patients and has shown promising results. Plasmapheresis is a process in which the liquid part of the blood, or plasma, is separated from the blood cells. Typically, the plasma is replaced with another solution such as saline or albumin, or the plasma is treated and then returned to your body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It may be recalled here that Plasma Therapy was started for COVID patients about a month back at SKIMS. The Director said that the use of this machine is ideal for the extraction of plasma in donors who have recovered from this disease. He said that Plasmapheresis helps to extract more plasma per operation and returns the blood cells of the donor to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis way more plasma can be extracted and one -time a donor can donate for 2 patients. Since only Plasma is used a donor can donate plasma more frequently,\u201d Dr Ahangar said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, for the first time the procedure of plasmapheresis was done on a doctor who had come to SKIMS Blood Bank as a volunteer plasma donor. The Director, Prof A G Ahangar, Medical Superintendent, Prof Faruq Jan, and Head, Blood Transfusion Medicine, Prof Rumana Makhdoomi personally supervised the procedure\u2014which was carried out without any complications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile the doctors, paramedics and the officials at SKIMS have hailed the Director for tirelessly working to install the state-of-the-art medical equipment installed at the Department.
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\u201cInstallation of this machine has brought SKIMS at par with leading institutions of the country which are leading from the front on plasma therapy for COVID. It is the first step towards the establishment of a plasma bank in Kashmir,\u201d said, Head, Blood Transfusion Medicine, Prof Rumana Makhdoomi.\u00a0 \u201cIt is really amazing how the Director is bringing many developments on board and incorporating the newest ideas and features to the Medical Institute,\u201d she said.(GNS)<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Doctors, paramedics hail the Director for installing state-of-the-art medical equipment Srinagar: Continuing its remarkable endeavours to provide quality healthcare across Jammu and Kashmir, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Soura has installed sophisticated machinery for conducting plasmapheresis for COVID-19 patients. \u201cThis is an outstanding development. With these sophisticated machines, we would be now able to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30222","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\/30222","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=30222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30222\/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=30222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}