Blood stored for 42 days delivers oxygen as well as blood stored for 7 days

Automated preparation of whole blood-derived platelets suspended in two different platelet additive solutions and stored for 7 days.

BACKGROUND The Atreus system (Terumo BCT) automates the preparation of blood components from whole blood donations. Intermediate platelet (PLT) products can be pooled manually or with the OrbiSac (Terumo BCT) and suspended in different PLT additive solutions (PASs) to obtain PLT concentrates (PCs). The aim of our study was to compare the in vitro PLT quality of PCs obtained with either the Atre...

Effect of the addition of the antioxidant taurine on the complete blood count of whole blood stored at room temperature and at 4ºC for up to 7 days

BACKGROUND The complete blood count is one of the most common routine tests. This study aimed to evaluate possible effects of the antioxidant taurine on the complete blood count of whole blood stored at room temperature and at 4ºC over seven days. METHODS Venous blood samples of 25 healthy males were distributed into two sets of tubes with each set of four tubes containing 50 µL of solutions ...

Hemoglobin Function in Stored Blood

INTRODUCTION The ultimate aim in transfusing blood is the maintenance or restoration of a medium for the transport of oxygen to body tissues. Most often, the efficacy of transfusion therapy is evaluated by survival of the donor erythrocytes in the recipient. However, red cells may have a normal in vivo survival yet be unable to bind and unload oxygen physiologically. In 1956, Valtis and Kennedy...

Oxygen delivery following transfusion of stored blood. I. Normal rats.

RINGLE, AND STANLEY I?. BALCERZAK. Oxygen delivery following transfusion of stored blood. I. Normal rats. J. Appl. Physiol. 37(l) : 60-63. 1974 .-Blood stored in acid-citrate-dextrose (ACD) develops increased oxygen affinity secondary to progressive decline of red cell 2,3-diphosphoglycerate (DPG) levels. The ability of stored blood to supply oxygen to tissues was studied in rats exchange-trans...

Efficacy of ε-Poly-L-lysine as an Antibacterial Additive for Platelets Stored at Room Temperature