What is Red Cell Storaging Solution

Product name: Red Cell Storaging Solution
Description of Red Cell Storaging Solution:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION:
Collected blood may be conventionally centrifuged to remove the plasma and the buffy coat layer, leaving behind the "packed red cells," as the mass of red cells is substantially separated from the plasma. This is desirable for several reasons, first to collect the plasma for separate therapeutic use, but also because it is desirable to administer concentrated red cells during major surgery, to provide the patient with a maximum amount of red cells with a minimum of added fluids, to avoid overburdening the patient's vascular system with excess fluids.
Accordingly, it is deemed desirable in many forms of medical practice and blood banking to store the packed red cells separately, apart from a substantial portion of the plasma, for later administration to a patient during major surgery or the like, while the collected plasma finds a separate medical use, for example administration to another patient or processing into various medical components such as antihemophilic factor, and plasma protein fraction.
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