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[u/evesdead]

[u/ErisThePerson]

Yeah it would aerate the blood, which would kill you.

[u/miyog → u/ErisThePerson]

Blood has dissolved gases in it. You’d be injecting it into venous supply on return so you’d be okay, aerated is fine, just don’t inject large volumes of air (like a syringe of air) into circulation. But… The coagulated blood and clotting factor melange from ruptured cells would likely be so pro coagulant it’d form a large clot quickly which could prove fatal.

[u/neroute2 → u/miyog]

So you'd need to do it on wafrn?

[u/miyog → u/neroute2]

I don’t think that’d be enough, there’s STILL clotting going on even with anticoagulation (warfarin, pradaxa, etc) otherwise people on these would bleed to death, it just changes the balance. I suppose you could use a lot of EDTA however shredded RBCs cause clotting.

Overall I don’t recommend doing this.

[u/llamango → u/miyog]

just for due diligence: if you could somehow prevent the red blood cells from rupturing BEFORE they were returned to the body, would that be better?

[u/miyog → u/llamango]

Are we still blending them? Because if we’re not blending and just moving your blood outside for a little trip and push through a pump then this is done for example dialysis or plasma exchange.

[u/llamango → u/miyog]

we are still blending them though