Ready to Use
Hemopure requires no preparation prior to use due to the following attributes:
- Stable for three years at room temperature (2° to 30° C) and does not require refrigeration, warming or reconstitution;
- Compatible with all blood types and does not require blood typing, testing or cross-matching;
- Ultra-purified through a patented pharmaceutical manufacturing process that has been demonstrated to remove or inactivate potential contaminants, including infectious agents (e.g. viruses, bacteria and TSE agents).
Carries Oxygen
To date, more than 200 preclinical animal and laboratory studies have been conducted. This body of data suggests that Hemopure transports oxygen to tissues more efficiently and more uniformly than red blood cells and increases the oxygen-carrying efficiency of circulating red blood cells.
Preclinical data have shown that the stabilized hemoglobin molecules in Hemopure are three times more efficient than natural red blood cells in their ability to oxygenate tissues.
Hemopure transports oxygen immediately upon administration and under ambient conditions (i.e., works with room air and does not require an oxygen mask).
In vitro studies suggest that the stabilized hemoglobin in Hemopure further facilitates oxygen transport by increasing the loading of oxygen to red blood cells in the lungs and by improving oxygen off-loading from red blood cells to tissues. In this capacity, the plasma hemoglobin acts as a “shuttle” that carries oxygen between the red blood cell and the capillary wall.
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