In vitro evaluation of a pediatric microaggregate blood filter.
Use of a pediatric stainless steel microaggregate screen filter to filter whole blood, gravity-sedimented packed cells, and centrifuged packed cells (cPC) from 20 healthy adults resulted in excessive levels of hemolysis (to 1477.9 mg/dl plasma hemoglobin with 5-day-old cPC) and unacceptable frequency of occlusion (10 to 40 percent).
D000328:Adult; D001773:Blood Cells; D001800:Blood Specimen Collection; D002449:Cell Aggregation; D002469:Cell Separation; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D014462:Ultrafiltration