Shit
Artificial blood is a promising medical innovation that enable doctors to have ample supplies of blood without relying much bloody donation in areas or emergency in which the supplies cannot catch up with the demands..
Well apparently it has a pretty bad side effect. ouch.
"It "doesn't look like something you'd want dripping into your veins," wrote Wil McCarthy in the August 2002 issue of Wired. At the time, he had no way of knowing just how right he was about Hemopure, the artificial blood that seemed so promising. It was universally compatible and had a three-year shelf life (unrefrigerated). But a recent meta-analysis of trials on several substitutes ? including Hemopure ? contains some gory results. Turns out, the fake bloods scavenge nitric oxide, causing vasoconstriction; patients who get them are 2.7 times more likely to have a heart attack and 30 percent more likely to die" (Wired)
Well apparently it has a pretty bad side effect. ouch.
"It "doesn't look like something you'd want dripping into your veins," wrote Wil McCarthy in the August 2002 issue of Wired. At the time, he had no way of knowing just how right he was about Hemopure, the artificial blood that seemed so promising. It was universally compatible and had a three-year shelf life (unrefrigerated). But a recent meta-analysis of trials on several substitutes ? including Hemopure ? contains some gory results. Turns out, the fake bloods scavenge nitric oxide, causing vasoconstriction; patients who get them are 2.7 times more likely to have a heart attack and 30 percent more likely to die" (Wired)
posted by Dody G. at 8:50 AM
2 Comments:
I thought everyone was 100% likely to die...
9:36 AM
touche
3:48 PM
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