Required equipment and consumables for PRP treatment

In centrifugation, the blood is placed in a centrifuge and rotated rapidly. The spinning motion and resulting centrifugal force causes the various components of the blood - such as platelets, red blood cells, and white blood cells - to migrate outward according to size and density. This process is an important part of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy, and the better the centrifuge, the better results can be achieved.

It is important to understand that it is not just about the speed of the centrifuge. It is also about centrifugal force, which depends on the size of the rotor in the centrifuge. Recent studies show that there is a relationship between centrifugal force (also called relative centrifugal force or RZB/RCF) and the amount of platelets we obtain.

If we use too high a centrifugal force, the platelets can be pushed into the phase with the red blood cells, and we get a plasma that contains almost no platelets - which is not good, since platelets play an important role in healing. Therefore, we are now working with a lower centrifugal force, and this has some advantages:

• It reduces the decay of the red blood cells.
• It prevents the platelets from disintegrating too early.
• We obtain a well sedimented plasma
• Cells that stick together are loosened (both large and small cells).

Therefore, centrifugation is an important step that must be performed carefully to obtain the best possible results.