Blood Chain – Dometic’s Solution for the Storage and Transport of Blood for Military and Civil Aid Use
20 November 2009
Dometic’s RCB boxes from the Blood Chain range are specially designed to meet the requirements of field conditions for military tasks as well as for civil aid organizations. This to transport temperature-sensitive supplies such as blood and blood products, plasma, blood samples and pharmaceutical products.
Made of rotomoulded polyethylene, these transport boxes offer excellent mechanical resistance, as proven by drop tests, and are not subject to corrosion. They are perfectly suited to intensive use, with frequent handling under difficult climatic conditions. The polyurethane foam injected between the double walls of these boxes ensures perfect insulation and thus preservation of the quality of blood, blood products and pharmaceutical products even over long periods of transport. Used with frozen icepacks or also wet ice for some versions, they are fully self-sufficient with respect to the ambient environment and therefore ideal for all transport stages.
The icepacks the boxes require as their source of refrigeration are frozen in a supplementary device specially designed for this purpose (MT 900).
The boxes RCB 2 – 25 offer different gross volumes (2,2 l – 44 l) and transport capacities (1 – 40 blood blags).
The RCB 42 P is a thermostabilizer designed for storing and transporting pre-cooled blood and medicinal products over long periods of time. The refrigerating unit operates with nearly all types of electricity (DC/AC). The RCB 42 P ensures mobility and provides all the services of a blood bank refrigerator.
All boxes are in conformance with ADR RID (2008/68/EC), IMDG (2002/84/EC) and ICAO-TI / IATA-DGR.
