Welcome to the Future: Synthetic Blood Saves Woman’s Life After Car Crash SHARE: Tweet </noscript> We’re going to check any and all True Blood jokes at the door, because this is a huge, huge medical news story that seems fairly significant, yet isn’t really being given the coverage it deserves. HBOC-201 is a hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier containing a molecule derived from cow plasma. Is is, an a manner of speaking, artificial blood. It carries oxygen to vital organs and unlike real blood it doesn’t require matching blood types and can be stored for three years without refrigeration. HBOC-201 has been working pretty successfully in clinical trials, and now, for the first time, it’s saved the life of an actual human being. Doctors at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia were able to save the life of 33-year-old Tamara Coakley after a car crash left her with severe blood loss (she only had one liter of blood in her), her heart was close to failure and “her spinal cord was almost severed, her lungs collapsed, her skull was fractured, several ribs were broken, as were her cheekbone and an elbow, and her spleen was ruptured.” It’s not an understatement to say that Tamara Coakley was about as close to dying as one could come. To further compound the problems facing the doctors trying to save her life, Coakley was a Jehovah Witness, which means she unable to receive blood transfusions. But blood substitutes were fine. And that’s when Dr. Mark Fitzgerald had a crazy idea. Dr Fitzgerald was familiar with the product being developed by the US Navy because he gave independent advice on a proposed research project five years ago. Working through the night, he negotiated with the drug manufacturer, OPK Biotech, the Therapeutic Goods Administration, the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service and airline carriers. The Alfred’s ethics committee gave the import the green light, permission was granted under the TGA’s special access scheme and the manufacturer paid the bill. Doctors were then able to use HBOC-201 during surgery to save Coakley’s life. “They did everything they could, I am so grateful,” Coakley told the Daily Telegraph. Now, some are rightfully calling this a groundbreaking procedure. “It was pioneering because The Alfred synthesised all previous efforts at use of this product in such extreme anaemia, and they got everything right,” said Professor Colin Mackenzie of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Faculty Shock Trauma Centre. It was the first reported case of the synthetic blood reversing cardiac hypoxia and anemia in a trauma patient. The HBOC-201 was able to raise Coakley’s levels of hemoglobin to keep her alive long enough for doctors to perform surgery and for her body to naturally replace the blood she lost. HBOC-201 is one of many synthetic bloods being developed at the moment and it would still have to undergo rigorous trials before moving from prototype to common medical tool. But. This is still a huge medical development.
Tim L 5pts I'm no fan of a lot of the beliefs of JW's, but I don't think that's the main issue here. Artificial blood is big news, considering another reason why it could be helpful. There are complaints by the Red Cross and similar groups that suggest that there is often a shortage of donations. With artificial blood, there will come a point in which blood donations are no longer necessary. This is big news!
Danny Haszard 5pts Jehovahs Witnesses dissident speaks out on JW belief system . A) They are at your door to recruit you for their watchtower society corporation,they will say that *we are just here to share a message from the Bible*... this is deception right off. B) Their *message* creed is a false Gospel that Jesus had his second coming in 1914.The problem with this is it's not just a cute fairy tale,Jesus warned of the false prophets who would claim *..look he is here in the wilderness,or see here he is at the temple*. C) Their anti-blood transfusion ban against *whole blood* has killed thousands. D) once they recruit you they will *love bomb* you in cult fashion to also recruit your family & friends or cut them off. ---- My family was spiritually and financially swindled by the Watchtower society,3rd generation Jehovah's Witness Danny Haszard
Danny Haszard 5pts Jehovah's Witnesses blood transfusion confusion Estimates range from 100,000 to 250,000 JW including countless children that have perished since the 1940s when the no blood doctrine was enforced.The Watchtower would like us to forget this and want us to think they are the good guys that want to keep us all safe from blood complications. They do take organ transplants blood is an *organ* too so go figure... THINK the Watchtower society will not allow a Jehovah's Witness to pre store their OWN blood called autologous blood,yet allows the transfusion of so-called Hemopure made from Bovine cow's blood. Geoff J 5pts Where is your PROOF Danny??? The dear girl survives, which opens a door for many others to benefit no matter who they are. How many non JW's have died from transfusion related complications??? How many non JW's have been infected with disease thru transfusions??? If JW's are only minority religion then I bet its heaps and heaps.
Geoff J 5pts Where is your PROOF Danny??? The dear girl survives, which opens a door for many others to benefit no matter who they are. How many non JW's have died from transfusion related complications??? How many non JW's have been infected with disease thru transfusions??? If JW's are only minority religion then I bet its heaps and heaps.