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A blood plasma substitute may refer to:

  • An artificially made substance designed to have one or more of the vast amount of functions of the contents of the blood plasma
  • Volume expander (although providing volume is only one of many functions of blood plasma)

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Blood plasma substitute

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A blood plasma substitute may refer to: An artificially made substance designed to have one or more of the vast amount of functions of the contents of...

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Blood substitute

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A blood substitute (also called artificial blood or blood surrogate) is a substance used to mimic and fulfill some functions of biological blood. It aims...

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Blood plasma

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Blood plasma is a light amber-colored liquid component of blood in which blood cells are absent, but which contains proteins and other constituents of...

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Plasmapheresis

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Greek πλάσμα, plasma, something molded, and ἀφαίρεσις aphairesis, taking away) is the removal, treatment, and return or exchange of blood plasma or components...

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Blood type

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known need for many transfusions. Blood plasma compatibility is the inverse of red blood cell compatibility. Type AB plasma carries neither anti-A nor anti-B...

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Blood transfusion

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use of blood plasma as a substitute for whole blood and for transfusion purposes as early as 1918. At the onset of World War II, liquid plasma was used...

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Allene Jeanes

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contributions include the development of Dextran, a lifesaving blood plasma substitute used in the Korean and Vietnam wars, and Xanthan gum, a polysaccharide...

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Blood

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away from those same cells. Blood is composed of blood cells suspended in blood plasma. Plasma, which constitutes 55% of blood fluid, is mostly water (92%...

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Polyvinylpyrrolidone

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derivatives of acetylene chemistry. PVP was initially used as a blood plasma substitute and later in a wide variety of applications in medicine, pharmacy...

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Blood product

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scope of blood substitutes. Cryoprecipitate Cryosupernatant Fresh frozen plasma PF24 Platelet transfusion Red blood cells The Clinical Use of Blood Handbook...

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Hemodynamics

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the dilution of the concentration of red blood cells and plasma constituents by partially substituting the blood with colloids or crystalloids. It is a...

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Blood bank

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the osmotic pressure in the blood vessels, preventing their collapse. The use of blood plasma as a substitute for whole blood and for transfusion purposes...

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Blood donation

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blood is drawn from the patient and the platelets are separated from the other blood components. The remainder of the blood, red blood cells, plasma,...

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Blood doping

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another person or back to the same individual, or by using blood substitutes. Many methods of blood doping are illegal, particularly in professional sports...

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Red blood cell

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dissolved in the blood plasma. Myoglobin, a compound related to hemoglobin, acts to store oxygen in muscle cells. The color of red blood cells is due to...

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Coagulation

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Activated platelets release the contents of stored granules into the blood plasma. The granules include ADP, serotonin, platelet-activating factor (PAF)...

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Antihypotensive agent

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cardiac output. If low blood pressure is due to blood loss, then preparations increasing volume of blood circulation—plasma-substituting solutions such as...

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Volume expander

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saline. Plasma-Lyte A and Plasma-Lyte 148 are buffered crystalloid solutions that may be infused intravenously, or used in conjunction with blood products...

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Cohn process

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Albumin was an excellent substitute for human plasma in World War Two. When administered to wounded soldiers or other patients with blood loss, it helped expand...

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Catecholamine

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catecholamines. Both amino acids are found in high concentrations in blood plasma and the brain. In mammals, tyrosine can be formed from dietary phenylalanine...

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ABO blood group system

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committee of the National Research Council concerned with blood grouping, he suggested to substitute Janský's and Moss's systems with the letters O, A, B,...

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Saliva

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2–21 mmol/L sodium (lower than blood plasma) 10–36 mmol/L potassium (higher than plasma) 1.2–2.8 mmol/L calcium (similar to plasma) 0.08–0.5 mmol/L magnesium...

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Carbaminohemoglobin

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then carried in plasma, 7% carried as free CO2, dissolved in plasma). Carbaminohemoglobin is a compound that bind to hemoglobin in the blood. Hemoglobin is...

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Maurice Stacey

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polysaccharides. He helped to develop bacterial polyglucose dextran as a blood plasma substitute. Stacey was awarded the Meldola Medal of the Royal Institute of...

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Hypovolemic shock

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time to first plasma transfusion has shown a significant reduction in mortality in damage control resuscitation. In addition to blood products, products...

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