Information for Health Care Providers

Memorial Blood Centers (MBC) is now increasing the nation’s supply of convalescent plasma by collecting donations from those who have recovered from COVID-19. MBC will collect, process the plasma for infusion, and maintain a bank for hospitals to treat patients with serious or immediately life-threatening COVID-19 infections.

If you have patients who have recovered from COVID-19 and are interested in donating convalescent plasma, please direct them to mbc.org/cpdonor. Potential donors will be required to provide documentation from your institution of either a positive disease test or positive recovery test.

Resources for Clinicians

Health care providers who are considering using convalescent plasma to treat patients may find these websites helpful:

• https://www.hematology.org/covid-19/covid-19-and-convalescent-plasma
• https://www.covidplasma.org/
• https://www.ccpp19.org/

How to Order Convalescent Plasma

• An interested physician must first make contact with their Blood Bank Medical Director.
• In order to transfuse the convalescent plasma, a hospital must participate in one of the IND pathways outlined by the FDA in order to obtain the COVID-19 convalescent plasma from a blood center. We recommend the Expanded Access Protocol from Mayo as the easiest way to treat multiple patients.
• Exisiting MBC hospital customers can order product directly from MBC by going to BloodHub
• ISBT Codes: Please use the following product codes when ordering in BloodHub.