- Complications Of Blood Administration

 

Microemboli:

   
   

Despite the use of a blood filter, dead RBCs and their debris get through and can impare bloodflow within the microvasculature...  This is especially possible in the lungs, where ARDS can be the result.  By the the time your blood expires at 23:59, at least half of the RBCs may be garbage!  Sort of depressing, huh?   

 

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