ProCell™ facilitates the extraction of blood from surgical sponges as a preliminary stepin the process of cell- salvage/intra-operative autotransfusion (IAT).ProCell™ functions as a blood collection device only and does not filter or otherwiseprocess the blood recovered. As an accessory to IAT, it is used in conjunction withstandard cell-salvage equipment which must process the blood retrieved from ProCell™prior to re-infusion into the patient.Designed for ease-of-use directly on the surgical instrument table, the disposableProCell™ can be used repeatedly during a surgical case and provides an alternative toother sponge-blood recovery methods including hand-wringing.