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A: We can store blood for 42 days if we do not freeze it. Frozen blood can be stored ten years, but freezing blood is a poor way of storing it. Generally speaking, we store blood in the refrigerator, where we can store it for up to 42 days.
Collection and Panels. Storage: Up to 6 hours at +18-25CÂ° or plasma sample should be frozen; specimen is stable for one month at -20CÂ°; whole blood after collection should not be stored at refrigerator (+2CÂ° to +4CÂ°) owing to cold-induced binding von Willebrand factor (vWF) to platelets and selective loss of vWF antigen (vWF:Ag) in plasma.