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>>> DocRickFry at aol.com 18/07/2004 6:05:41 am >>>

In a message dated 7/17/2004 12:49:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
KMATTOX at aol.com writes:

THUS MY QUESTION TO THIS LIST  SERVER?       Is the oft repeated
emotion  of 
us that old banked blood (>21 days), is a volume expander and not of 
great 
help in oxygen transport true or an urban legend?    I  will look it
up, of 
course, but I thought it would be of great interest to  this group to
debate and 
produce evidence on both sides of this issue as it is  so very
emotional.    I 
would like to see both the emotion, and  the science, but please try to

indicate from which camp you emerge.

Gene Moore and his group at Denver have published a few papers recently

providing compelling evidence that old banked blood had significantly
greater  
complications than newer blood--this has its greatest impact when this
blood is  
given to patients in shock as opposed to stable patients with simply
low  
Hct--don't have the exact refs, but they should be easy to find.  I
beleive  that 
at least one of these papers was presented at the AAST.
ERF
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