Royal Columbian Hospital is one of 12 North American hospitals involved in a study that has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Even though blood is red, the main ingredient–plasma–is a straw colour. Plasma is the liquid portion of blood and, for decades, has been the standard for treating excessive bleeding in trauma and surgical patients. According to Canadian Blood Services, some of this so-called “liquid gold” goes to hospitals for transfusions, but the majority is used to make life-saving medications, such as prothrombin complex concentrate (PCC), which is used to prevent bleeding and…
