Clinical Study Turkish journal of medical sciences 2015

A new utilization area for hyperbaric oxygen? Improving quality of stored blood.

Ay H, Yüksel R, Şimşek K, Topal T, Yeşilyurt Ö, Öter Ş, et al. — Turkish journal of medical sciences, 2015

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Summary

What Researchers Did

Researchers investigated the effects of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) exposure on various parameters of stored blood over 21 days, comparing HBO-treated blood to control blood from the same donors.

What They Found

They found that while glucose and pH levels decreased in stored blood, these decreases were less pronounced in the hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) exposed group. Additionally, mean corpuscular and platelet volumes, which tended to increase during storage, remained lower and nearer physiologic levels with HBO exposure (2.5 atm for 90 min), and osmotic fragility was more stable.

Canadian Relevance

This study was conducted in Turkey and has no direct Canadian connection.

Study Limitations

A limitation is that this was a relatively small-scale in vitro study on stored blood, and further research is needed to confirm these effects in clinical settings.

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Study Details

Study Type	Clinical Study
Category	Uncategorised
Source	Pubmed
PubMed ID	25790538
Year Published	2015
Journal	Turkish journal of medical sciences
MeSH Terms	Adult; Blood Glucose; Blood Preservation; Blood Transfusion, Autologous; Citrates; Erythrocyte Indices; Erythrocytes; Glucose; Humans; Male; Oxygen

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