24^th World Hematology Congress

Blood based products.

A blood product is a substance prepared from blood used for therapeutic purpose. Blood products include blood components such as red blood cell concentrates, platelets, plasma and cryoprecipitate or plasma derivatives such as albumin, coagulation factor concentrates, immunoglobulins etc. These products are very essential in medical conditions such as anaemia, blood loss, trauma, anaemia, leukaemia etc. Artificial blood or blood surrogate is an artificial substance used to mimic and fulfil some functions of biological blood.  Artificial blood and volume expanders are artificial products and hence research into these products is the need of the hour as they are very essential during emergencies when blood donors are not available. Hence a promising research into the blood products is needed.

• Pathogen reduction techniques.
• Artificial blood.
• Bio-engineered red blood cell products.
• Therapeutic biological products.
• Oral anticoagulants.