A blood product is any therapeutic substance prepared from human
blood.
This includes
whole blood; blood components; and plasma derivatives.
Whole blood is not commonly used in
transfusion medicine. Blood components include:
red blood cell concentrates or suspensions;
platelets
Platelets, also called thrombocytes (from Greek θρόμβος, "clot" and κύτος, "cell"), are a component of blood whose function (along with the coagulation factors) is to react to bleeding from blood vessel injury by clumping, thereby ini ...
produced from whole blood or via apheresis;
plasma
Plasma or plasm may refer to:
Science
* Plasma (physics), one of the four fundamental states of matter
* Plasma (mineral), a green translucent silica mineral
* Quark–gluon plasma, a state of matter in quantum chromodynamics
Biology
* Blood pla ...
; and
cryoprecipitate. Plasma derivatives are plasma proteins prepared under pharmaceutical manufacturing conditions, these include: albumin; coagulation factor concentrates; and
immunoglobulins.
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Relation to other substances
Blood products may also be called blood-based products to differ from
blood substitutes, which generally refer to artificially produced products. Also, although many blood products have the effect of volume expansion, the group is usually distinguished from
volume expanders, which generally refers to artificially produced substances and are thereby within the scope of ''blood substitutes''.
See also
*
Cryoprecipitate
*
Cryosupernatant
*
Fresh frozen plasma
*
PF24
*
Platelet transfusion
*
Red blood cells
Red blood cells (RBCs), also referred to as red cells, red blood corpuscles (in humans or other animals not having nucleus in red blood cells), haematids, erythroid cells or erythrocytes (from Greek language, Greek ''erythros'' for "red" and ''k ...
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