Abstract

It is well established that debris tends to accumulate in banked blood, the amount of debris increasing with storage time. If such a blood is transfused to a patient, it will be filtered by the capillary network of the lungs and could cause various intensities of microemboli. These can be prevented by microfiltration--the Swank IL200 transfusion filter made of Dacron wool is perfectly suitable. It removes more than 70% of the debris 29-100 mum size from four blood units and its efficiency for particle removal is greatly increased by lactate priming.

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