LAUSR

Two videos were produced in 1997 as educational material for patients and blood donor volunteers who considered undergoing hematopoietic progenitor cell (HPC) collection by peripheral blood apheresis. The 6-minute videos featured the discussion between a patient and a physician, also using animations for explanation, in English and in Spanish. The HPC collection by peripheral blood apheresis after stimulation with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), a rather novel procedure at the time, has become a widely used procedure today. Our legacy videos exemplify how little has changed in the basic information over 20 years, thus documenting the consistency and implying the safety of this wellestablished high-end transfusion medicine procedure. HPC collections by peripheral blood apheresis enable transplantations that often prove life-saving. These legacy videos may still be used for patient and blood donor education today.