title: Blood substitutes: fluids, drugs, or miracle solutions?
abstract: Oxygen-carrying volume-expanding solutions that can sustain life in the absence of red blood cells have been developed. Concerns about side effects, sources of hemoglobin, and the ultimate demonstration of efficacy will have to be satisfactorily addressed before anesthesiologists routinely administer such solutions in place of red cells during surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA.
authors.forename: N M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Dietz
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Joyner
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Warner
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001802:Blood Substitutes; D005466:Fluorocarbons; D006438:Hemodilution; D006454:Hemoglobins; D006801:Humans; D008081:Liposomes
chemical_list: D001802:Blood Substitutes; D005466:Fluorocarbons; D006454:Hemoglobins; D008081:Liposomes