Anesthésie


Plasma et diluant

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Nous présentons une boîte en tôle provenant de la deuxième guerre mondiale, dans laquelle un fermier, pendant de longues années, ramassait ses clous roullées. Ce n'est qu'en y regardant de plus près qu'un reconnait le caractère médical. En effet, on peut lire sur la boîte:

 

"600 cc
DISTILLED WATER
Pyrogenfree, Distilled, and Sterilized to which has been added 0.1 percent citric acid. Contains also sterile equipment to be used with the needles contained in the plasma can, for administering restored plasma.
See instructions for use and diagrams on plasma can.
ELI LILLY AND COMPANY
Indianapolis U.S.A."

 

La boîte faisait partie de l'équipement médical de l'Armée américaine en 1944/45. Elle contenait initialement un flacon rempli d'eau stérile et du matériel, qui, ensemble avec un deuxième récipient, non conservé, contenant du plasma sec, servait à restituer du plasma de transfusion:


"The package contained a waterproof fiberboard box, a rubber-stoppered bottle of dried plasma, evacuated to 28 inches of vacuum, with the sterile, pyrogen-free equipment to administer it, contained in a sealed tin can evacuated to 26 inches of vacuum and a rubber-stopped bottle of distilled water, with the equipment necessary to combine it with the plasma, contained in a tin can. After some changes in the initial specifications, this package, which was first produced by commercial laboratories in 1941, was used with satisfaction throughout the war. The first packages which were put up contained 250 cc. of dried plasma, together with the appropriate amount of diluent fluid. Late in 1943, the amount of plasma in each package was increased to 500 cc."

Source: history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/wwii/actvsurgconvoli/CH06.htm.

 

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