What are artificial blood products?

What are artificial blood products?

Artificial blood is a product made to act as a substitute for red blood cells. While true blood serves many different functions, artificial blood is designed for the sole purpose of transporting oxygen and carbon dioxide throughout the body.

What is Hemopure made of?

Hemopure is made from chemically stabilized, cross-linked cow hemoglobin using a fairly simple and less expensive biotechnology than required for other HBOC blood substitutes. Its minute size – not more than 1/1000 the size of RBCs – is advantageous for transporting oxygen into small spaces between cells.

What company makes synthetic blood?

Companies like Alliance Pharmaceutical Corp., Baxter Healthcare Corp., Nuvox Pharmaceuticals, Sanguine Inc., and Therapure Biopharma are some of the first movers in the artificial blood products market.

What are the six different blood products?

The transfusable components that can be derived from donated blood are red cells, platelets, plasma, cryoprecipitated AHF (cryo), and granulocytes. An additional component, white cells, is often removed from donated blood before transfusion.

Do Jehovah’s Witnesses accept hemoglobin?

Jehovah’s Witnesses do not accept whole blood, or major components of blood, namely, red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets and plasma. Also they do not accept hemoglobin which is a major part of red blood cells …

Is Hemopure FDA approved?

In the US, Hemopure is an investigational new drug that is not approved by the FDA as being safe or effective for any use in humans, and therefore only available through a clinical trial, or expanded access (sometimes called compassionate use).

What blood products can Jehovah’s Witness receive?

Many Witnesses accept the transfusion of derivatives of primary blood components such as albumin solutions, cryoprecipitate, clotting factor concentrates (including fibrinogen concentrate) and immunoglobulins.

Can a Jehovah Witness have an iron infusion?

The use of erythropoietin-stimulating agents and intravenous iron has been shown to restore red blood cell and Hb levels in JW patients, although these effects may be significantly delayed.

What do Jehovah Witness use instead of blood?

Multiple transfusion alternatives have been developed, and many are generally acceptable to a Jehovah’s Witness patient, including tranexamic acid, prothrombin complex concentrate, and fibrin glue.