As Medicine Meets the challenge.

[BenJepthah]

 This article from Popular Science is now more than 12 years old ! I’m wondering what other advances have occurred around the world? 

Better Than Blood?

A man-made, pure-white compound called Oxycyte carries oxygen 50 times as effectively as our own blood. Researchers are betting that it’s the best way to treat America’s leading cause of accidental death: traumatic brain injury

 

Edited August 7, 2018 by rocket

[rocket]

 Jan.19.2017

The Long Quest To Create Artificial Blood May Soon Be Over

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/long-quest-create-artificial-blood-may-soon-be-over-n708576

 

November 13, 2007

New Blood Substitutes Promise Relief for Sagging Blood Banks

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/blood-substitutes-hemoglobin-anemia/

 

Questionable if a bovine hemoglobin product would be proper for a Christian.

Edited August 7, 2018 by rocket

[BenJepthah]

On 8/6/2018 at 9:27 PM, rocket said:

 Jan.19.2017

The Long Quest To Create Artificial Blood May Soon Be Over

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/long-quest-create-artificial-blood-may-soon-be-over-n708576

 

November 13, 2007

New Blood Substitutes Promise Relief for Sagging Blood Banks

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/blood-substitutes-hemoglobin-anemia/

 

Questionable if a bovine hemoglobin product would be proper for a Christian.

Further, can the substitute be stored without refrigeration? A really viable substitute should have a long shelf life.