May 8, 2011

  The use of innovative blood substitute saved the lives of a resident of Australia, is seriously injured in a car accident. This case was the first proof of the successful use blood substitute   in traumatic hemorrhage.

Tamara Coakley, 33-year-old woman got into a car accident, which resulted in sustained large krovopoteri . The woman was taken to a hospital in Melbourne with acute circulatory failure that developed on the background of oxygen starvation of the heart muscle.

In such a situation requires urgent blood transfusion . Aggravating circumstance was the fact that Tamara Coakley is a member of sectarian and very popular in the US movement, which is prohibited by the canons of the adoption of someone else's blood, which is equivalent to cannibalism.

Head of the Department of Traumatology Mark Fitzgerald   I went against the dying patient. The doctor recalled that more than five years ago, participated in the creation of the drug HBOC-201. Studies were carried out using bovine hemoglobin, and with the support of the military structures of the United States.

HBOC-201   - A synthetic oxygen carrier, the main advantage of which is compatible with any blood group and simplicity in storage, which is very important in terms of military action.

To obtain permission to use the drug the doctor had to ring up a number of relevant authorities. As a result, after 48 hours it was brought to the hospital about 5 liters vital tools. At this point, the patient is already in a coma. After two days of Tamara condition stabilized level Hemoglobin It rose more than doubled. Today, the patient is practically healthy and ready to be discharged.

After this incident, experts plan to raise the issue of the supply of new drug krovozamenyayuschim remote parts of the country and the military bases where there are readily available blood Transfusion.