Hemoglobin substitute

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blood /plasma substitute

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• A hemoglobin substitute is still years away, however, and synthetic red-cell expanders are still in the testing phase.
• Despite the millions of research dollars invested, the search for a hemoglobin substitute has been a "remarkably unsuccessful story," said Robert Beal of the League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Geneva.
• One is a non-hemoglobin substitute based research effort which involves compounds that do not bind oxygen directly, but are able to increase the solubility of oxygen in the blood.
• Small-volume resuscitation with the hemoglobin substitute HBOC-201: effect on brain tissue oxygenation.
• Blood profile during and after hemoglobin substitute administration.
• Small-volume resuscitation with the hemoglobin substitute HBOC-201: effect on brain tissue oxygenation.

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