AN Australian woman's life has been saved using a radical synthetic blood substitute made from cow plasma.
In a world first, doctors at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne brought 33-year-old Tamara Coakley back from the brink after a car crash left her with severe blood loss and close to heart failure.
Her spinal cord was almost severed, her lungs collapsed, her skull was fractured, several ribs were broken, as were her cheekbone and an elbow, and her spleen was ruptured.
She was barely alive when she arrived at hospital.
"I had one litre of blood left in my body," she said.
In a last-ditch effort to save Ms Coakley's life, 10 units of the haemoglobin-based oxygen carrier HBOC201 were flown in from the US.
The synthetic contains a molecule derived from cow plasma and restored her levels of haemoglobin, which carries oxygen to the tissues.
Tot articolul: http://www.news.com.au/national/revolutionary-blood-hboc-201-saves-tamara-coakley/story-e6frfkvr-1226050144062
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