Corporate Sponsors

All dog and cat blood donors are fed courtesy of The Iams Company.

All dog and cat blood donors receive Frontline and Heartgard courtesy of Merial.

All dog and cat blood donors receive Advantix and Advantage courtesy of Bayer Animal Health.

VPL provides D.A.P. and Feliway for the wellbeing of our blood donors.

Donors receive 4DX and FIV/FeLV snap tests courtesy of Idexx Laboratories.

All our cat blood donors are tested with Solo Step FH provided by Heska.

Transfusion Medicine Service

Our Services

The Blood Bank at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital at Ohio State offers blood components for dogs, cats and camelids.

Service Highlights

This growing service is supplying blood components to many veterinary clinics and emergency services countrywide. We provide canine packed red blood cells, fresh frozen plasma, stored plasma, cryoprecipitate and cryo-poor plasma; feline packed red blood cells, fresh frozen plasma and whole blood (type B); and camelid (llama and alpaca) plasma.

Office Hours

• Office hours: 7:30am to 4:30pm Monday - Friday.
• Blood donors and potential blood donors by appointment only.

In order to receive blood components overnight, they must be ordered between 8am Monday and 4pm Thursday.

For an appointment please call: (614) 292-3551

What to Expect

If you are coming to screen your dog or cat as a potential blood donor, we will ask you some questions about your pet. After that, you can either wait or leave your pet with us for a couple of hours. We will perform a physical exam and we will draw blood to do a variety of blood tests. Once we get the results back, we will contact you to let you know if your pet has qualified as a blood donor.

If your pet is scheduled for blood donation, you can drop him/her off in the morning and pick him/her up in the afternoon, or you can wait in the lobby for 1 to 3 hours.

Your pet will receive free vaccines, food, heartworm and flea preventive medication, and annual blood work as long as he/she is in the blood bank program. Learn more about donor eligibility and benefits.

Special Equipment & Technology

• Refrigerated centrifuge
• Blood collection mixer
• Tube sealer
• Plasma extractor
• Refrigerator
• Freezer (-30 C)
• PFA-100 Platelet function analyzer

Clinicians

• Guillermo Couto, DVM, DACVIM (Oncology, Internal Medicine)
• Cristina Iazbik, DVM

Payment

There is no fee to donate blood.

Veterinarians or owners purchasing blood products will be expected to pay at the time of pick-up/delivery of those products.