Three researchers at Michael Reese Medical Center have developed a blood substitute for use in treatment of medical shock. The hemoglobin solution is made of ordinary salt water and red pigment normally contained in red blood cells. It could be used on battlefield and in the emergency operating room as a transfusion fluid that may be better than plasma.The discovery was made by Doctors S. Frederick Rabiner, J.R. Helbert and Harry Lopas of the Reese center's division of clinical hematology. The research was sponsored by the U.S. Army surgeon general's office.
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