Applying Bandages After Donating Blood

Video Transcript

"Our donor has finished her donation and now we're going to put a bandage on and provide post donation instructions. What she should expect. Things she should do over the next couple days to make sure that she recovers from the donation well. So she has her arm up in the air right now. We do that after we remove the needle to make sure that they put pressure on it and that both the skin and the vein form good clots and make sure she won?t bleed anymore. Then we're going to pick a pressure dressing. What color would you like for your bandage today? Purple. Purple, okay. The bandages that we use are made by a company called Coflex. They don't stick to skin or hair. They only stick to, it only sticks to itself so it's very comfortable to have on and very easy to remove. Now that her arm has been up for about 2 minutes. You can go ahead and set it down. I'm going to clean that iodine off for you. How do you feel? I feel great. Feel great. Feel the same as when you came in? Uh huh. Good that's what you should feel. This pressure dressing is going to need to stay on for 4 hours. I want you to keep it clean and dry to avoid infection. I want you to drink a lot of water over the next few days. For 24 hours avoid strenuous exercise and heavy lifting and don't skip any meals either. How does that feel, you got movement? Yep. Yeah? No problem? Okay. Now would you like to sit here a little bit longer or are you ready to go to the canteen? Uh, I think I'm ready to go to the canteen. Okay. I'm going to lower your chair. After the donation each donor stays 15 minutes in our canteen area and has refreshments. Juice and treats like cookies and pretzels and things like that. The idea behind this is we want to monitor them for extra time after they donate to make sure they're feeling well and that no type of reaction will happen."