Erschienen in:
01.10.1999 | Review
Blood substitutes
verfasst von:
DonatR Spahn
Erschienen in:
Critical Care
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Ausgabe 5/1999
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Excerpt
Blood substitutes have long been sought after, and artificial oxygen carriers may soon become a reality. Despite increased safety of allogeneic blood in terms of transmission of infectious diseases [
1], avoiding allogeneic blood transfusions remains an important goal in perioperative and intensive care medicine. This is because allogeneic blood transfusions may cause immunosuppression with an increased incidence of postoperative infections [
2,
3] and may adversely affect outcome in intensive care [
4], and thus they remain a public concern [
5]. …