Umbilical cord blood harvesting is the most critical moment of the transplant preparation. High-quality harvesting means the sterility preservation of the umbilical cord blood and the harvesting of the maximal amount of the umbilical cord blood. If the umbilical cord blood is not sterile, the contamination almost always arose at the harvesting.

          It is possible to harvest the umbilical cord blood into syringes or into a harvesting bag. Although the syringe harvesting is cheaper, the amount of harvested blood is smaller and more often contaminated. So we use the method of the harvesting into the harvesting bag.

          The harvesting could be performed by a company employee, or by the obstetrician. We prefer the obstetrician to harvest, because the birth can arise suddenly and the company employee may be late coming to the birth.

However, the majority of the obstetricians had never performed harvesting and experience shows considerable differences in the quality of the first, second and the third harvesting, so we pay high attention to the instruction material, which includes video- material. The third harvesting is sterile in 98,3% according to our experiences. The first harvesting only in 90,4%. The average amount of the harvested umbilical cord blood at the first harvesting is 55,8 ml; at the third it is 87,4 ml. The harvesting kit provided by us contains two training harvesting sets by which the obstetrician can perform two training harvestings before the umbilical cord blood harvesting of your child’s. Simultaneously, at any time (24 hours a day) he can contact our experts, it means even during the umbilical cord blood harvesting.

If the umbilical cord blood is not sterile, we will give you the money back, even though the costs incurred are equal to other transplant preparation costs, hence we are financially motivated to increase the portion of sterile harvesting to the maximum level.

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• The harvesting method used
• The way of training harvesting employees
• The co-operation with the obstetrician
• Financial conditions if the harvesting does not succeed