Blood Bank – Blood Donations
Director: Dr. Mordechai-Mudi Misgav
Director of the blood and coagulation bank laboratories: Dr. Liron Miller
Deputy Director of the Blood Bank:
Natalia Gurvitz
Director of the Immunohematology Unit: Valeria Prober
Manager of the Apheresis Unit: Rita Mayorov
Coordinator of the blood components field:
Dr. Nathalie Landa
Center for Quality and Safety: Dr. Amir Alder
Contact:
Secretary: 03-5302633
Fax: 03-5305294
Blood donation unit: 03-5303570
The blood bank laboratory: 03-5302570
To donate platelets from a single donor, please contact the thrombopheresis team:
03-5305375
For immunohematological investigation and blood matching: 03-5302633
Blood donation hours:
Sunday-Thursday at 7:30-15:00
Location:
The Blood Bank laboratory, The Laboratory building, Ground floor
Blood Donations can be made in the central lobby of the hospitalization building or in the blood donation unit located in the outpatient clinic wing (next to the surgical clinic desk) on the entrance floor of the hospitalization building
The Sheba Blood Bank is certified by the Israel laboratory Accreditation Authority, operating in compliance with the ISO standard for labs.
The Blood Bank engages in four primary areas of activity:
Blood donation
Donating blood saves lives. The Sheba Blood Bank provides approximately 400 blood products daily to hospitalized patients. Blood donations are crucial for surgeries and patients in departments such as bone marrow transplants, hematology, oncology, high-risk pregnancy, cardiothoracic surgery, and internal medicine.
Apheresis – separating the components of a patient’s blood
- Plasmapheresis: the specific removal of plasma.
- LDL apheresis: specific removal of cholesterol.
- Leukopheresis: removal of white blood cells from the blood of acute leukemia patients.
- Therapeutic thrombopheresis: for patients with thrombocytosis.
- Erythrophresis: removal of erythrocytes infected with diseases like malaria and replacing them with donated erythrocytes.
Collection of platelets from a single donor – thrombopheresis donation
Donation of single-donor platelets, particularly in wards and day hospitalizations, catering to bone marrow transplants, paediatric and adult haematology, as well as oncology.
To donate platelets from a single donor, please contact the thrombopheresis team directly at 03-5305375 to schedule an appointment.
Immunohematology
- Preparation and administration of blood and its derivatives for patients in the operating room, inpatient wards, and day care centres.
- Conducting blood type and Rh tests, as well as direct and indirect Coombs tests.
- Detection of antibodies to secondary blood groups in patients receiving repeated transfusions and women during pregnancy.
- Detection of autoantibodies.
- Preparation of a special blood component for the patient such as filtered, irradiated, washed blood and more.
- Preparation of blood components for major hemorrhage incidents and events involving numerous casualties.
