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Artificial blood filtration involves passing blood through a filter to remove impurities such as toxins, waste products, and excess fluid. The process helps in purifying the blood and maintaining its composition within normal ranges. Artificial blood filtration is commonly used in dialysis machines for patients with kidney failure.

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Why is artificial blood useful?

Artificial blood can be useful in emergency situations where traditional blood transfusions are not readily available or compatible. It can also be used to treat specific medical conditions such as anemia or hemorrhage, and carries a lower risk of transmitting infections compared to donated blood.


What are the advantages to using artificial blood?

Artificial blood can be stored longer than donated blood, reducing the risk of shortages. It also eliminates the need for blood typing and cross-matching, making it potentially safer for patients. Additionally, artificial blood has a lower risk of transmitting infectious diseases compared to donated blood.


What is artificial filtration of the blood called?

Dialysisdialysis is a machine filtering the body's blood when the organs responsible for natural filtration (kidneys, liver) can not.


Bacteria are the second most common cause of artificial implant failures in humans. In these cases why isn't an infection usually detected from cultures of blood or tissue?

The bacteria is usually within the cavity of the artificial implants (not detectable in blood or cultures) unit it becomes more severe. That is why it is always important to ask a pt whether he or she has had any artificial implants. If the WBC is elevated (suspect infxn from artificial implants before digging for answers eleswhere).


What does Hemodialysis involve?

involves circulating the patient's blood outside of the body through an extracorporeal circuit (ECC), or dialysis circuit. The ECC is made up of plastic blood tubing, a filter known as a dialyzer (or artificial kidney), and a dialysis machine