Dose for blood transfusion storage...


By James Li, M.D. [website] on March 03, 2006
Category: Heparin calcium

We're looking for confirmation that we can use heparin to store refrigerated whole blood for emergency transfusion in a developing world practice without many resources. We believe the dose is 2000u per 500 ml of whole blood. Is this correct?

Regards,

James Li, M.D.


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