Word: plasma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morgue, the stretcher was being wheeled into the reception room when Leonard and Driver Jim Darling heard a gasp from under the sheets. Within eight minutes, Mrs. Butler was in an emergency hospital, wrapped in blankets. She was given plasma, and after 20 minutes she began to revive, with a pulse of 66. Within the hour, after more stimulants, her skin began to warm up. Mrs. Butler was really alive...
...Edwin J. Cohn, Higgins University Professor, yesterday announced a new blood medicine that may replace plasma is some cases...
Cohn and a group of doctors told the National Academy of Sciences that this medicine, which is derived from the human blood, may be used to combat shock and treat burns. The scientists expect it will replace both plasma and serum albumin, an anti-shock medicine, in use against war wounds or atom-bomb casualties...
...medicine is called Stable Plasma Protein Solution, and is produced automatically by a machine. Blood does not flow into a bottle, but directly from donor to machine...
...cannot be, a substitute for whole blood, because it contains living cells. And whole blood is best for the wounded and for most victims of shock. But whole blood cannot be stored more than three weeks and cannot be given on the battlefield, so doctors use plasma (the blood fluid from which the cells have been removed) for first aid. Plasma will keep for years. As an emergency treatment for shock, doctors use plasma "extenders" such as salt solution, gelatine or Dextran. None of these contains the complex chemicals found in plasma, and none would be used if there were...