An umbilical cord blood bank offers the cord blood storage facility for parents-to-be who’ve leaned about the self-repairing power of the cord blood stem cells and bear a cost for the storage facility of the stem cells.

And undoubtedly, they choose one of the best cord blood banks, who make sure that they take the entire responsibility from cord blood collection to transportation and retrieval.

So…

A Safe and Painless Cord Blood Collection Process Is Carried Out

The baby may be born vaginally or via an emergency C – section, once the baby and the placenta is delivered, the cord is disinfected and the vein is punctured to clamp and cut it a few inches apart. Then the caregiver inserts a sterile needle and collects the blood left behind in the umbilical cord and the placenta in a sterile collection bag. This bag, in fact, is kept is safe condition inside an x-ray free certified collection kit box, which again filled with anti-coagulant, thus preventing the blood from clotting, before it reaches the laboratory. Approximately 75 ml of the cord blood gets collected without causing any pain either to the mother or the baby.

A Well-designed Transportation Container is Used

Once the blood gets collected a hard plastic coated and vacuum-insulated collection kit box, the sample unit gets transported to the lab safely.

The Cord Blood in Processed in Well-equipped and Accredited Labs

Accredited cord blood banks mean that, the labs of cord blood banks comply with safety standards, medical protocols and operational efficiency, while processing the cord blood stem cells. In fact, FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approved and cGMP and cGTP compliant systems ensure that your baby umbilical cord blood is processed consistently, in a biologically safe environment.  It also indicates that the processing takes place with the highest precision, without a possibility of manual inacuracy. Plus, the technologies meet the international health, safety and environmental requirements by complying with the quality standards of AABB and FACT – NETCORD.

Advanced Storage Methods

For further testing, the cord blood stem cells are stored in compartmentalized cryobags in frozen state (-190 degrees). This is done so that the stem cells are preserved for 21 years and more of baby’s life.

Timely and Safe Transportation Facility

The best cord blood banking companies take the complete responsibility of delivering the sample unit in time and in good condition at the transplantation center. In fact, these companies have logistic partners, with its best controlled measures, thus ensuring absolutely safe and timely delivery of the sample unit. However, in case the stem cells are found to have been damaged during transportation from storage facility to the transplant centre, the cord blood bank will take care and either offer an alternate matching sample or a compensation.

To Conclude

The decision of cord blood banking is life- changing decision. Choose those banks which can give assurance on the maintenance or who give the surety of safety. And where the parents can enjoy the exclusive ownership of their baby’s stem cells.

Alternately, the expecting parents might choose to donate their baby’s stem cells in the public cord blood banks. However, in this case, they won’t be able to use it for their own requirement.

Source: https://www.cordlifeindia.com/about-stem-cells