"Effects of Resuscitation Fluids on Nonadaptive Immune Responses."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Transfusion, "Background: Colloidal plasma-expander fluids are commonly used as an alternative to blood components in the resuscitation of patients suffering from hemorrhagic shock and trauma. Of these, hydroxyethyl starch is also used as a cryopreservative, and these dual properties have been utilized in the development of a blood storage system that allows the direct transfusion of red cells. The prolonged intravascular persistence of hydroxyethyl starch suggests that phagocytic clearance may be impaired and that the presence of hydroxyethyl starch could exacerbate transfusion-induced immunomodulation. Study...

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