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HealthProviders DB is a comprehensive database of healthcare providers, including a complete directory of all Hemapheresis Practitioners.
As of today, the following are the total number of Hemapheresis Practitioners nationally, in your state, and near your location.
Medicare
The following are the total number of Hemapheresis Practitioners who accept Medicare in your state, the number who have opted out of Medicare, and the total number excluded from participation in Medicare nationwide.
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What do Hemapheresis Practitioners do?
Hemapheresis practitioners perform apheresis, or hemapheresis, a medical procedure where a patient’s blood is separated into its components, a specific component is collected or removed, and the rest is returned to the body.
These practitioners utilize machines to separate blood and remove disease-causing elements, such as excess white blood cells, plasma proteins, or abnormal red blood cells, to treat various conditions, including autoimmune diseases, certain blood disorders, and high cholesterol levels.
Responsabilities
Blood Separation: They operate specialized machines that filter a patient’s blood, separating it into its parts: plasma, platelets, white blood cells, and red blood cells.
Targeted Component Removal or Collection: They selectively remove specific components, such as disease-causing antibodies from plasma, excess white blood cells, or abnormal red blood cells. Alternatively, they may collect desired components, such as hematopoietic stem cells, for bone marrow transplants.
Blood Component Return: After removing the target component, the remaining standard blood components and a replacement fluid (if necessary) are returned to the patient’s bloodstream.
Patient Care: They ensure the patient’s comfort and monitor their vital signs during the procedure, which is often performed on an outpatient basis.
Standard Apheresis Procedures and Conditions Treated
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Collection: Collects stem cells from peripheral blood for bone marrow and stem cell transplants.
Therapeutic Plasma Exchange: A procedure that removes harmful antibodies from the plasma to treat autoimmune disorders and other conditions.
Leukocytapheresis: Removes excess white blood cells to manage extremely high white blood cell counts.
Erythrocytapheresis: Replaces abnormal red blood cells with healthy donor red blood cells to treat conditions like Sickle Cell Disease.
Plateletpheresis: Removes excess platelets for conditions like Essential Thrombocythemia.
Extracorporeal photopheresis treats white blood cells with a medication and UV light before reinfusing them, and is often used for certain cancers and graft-versus-host disease.