[New polymers for transfusiology]

The Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the BSSR Academy of Sciences and the Byelorussian Research Institute of Blood Transfusion have developed and used in hospital practice a fundamentally new method of blood stabilization which does not require addition of alliens. Some part of calcium from blood plasma is extracted by filtrating the blood through layers of specially developed highly effective and biologically compatible fibrous sorbents of derivatives of cellulose (natural highpolymer). The blood may the used in all cases of homotransfusion and most expediently in extremely complicated cases, when direct blood transfusions are difficult. Stabilized blood may also be effectively used when large-quantity or exchange blood transfusions have to be quickly performed, to resuscitate patients from clinical death, to stop haemorrhage caused by disturbances in blood coagulation, to treat anaemia of different etiology, including radiation illness, and in case of sensitiveness to citrate solutions (serious affections of kidneys, liver and heart).