Topic summary
Blood-based product
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Blood product.
Relation to other substances
Blood products may also be called blood-derived products (or blood-based products) to differentiate them from blood substitutes, which generally refer to artificially produced products. 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.