2008-08-26.log:22:23 < bkero> kanzure: blood substitutes
2008-08-26.log:22:24 < bkero> I was looking up Cray Blood that's used to cool computers, which brought me to fluorinert, which is a perfluorocarbon, which had some studies linked to it about using it for liquid breathing, or as a blood substitute.
2008-09-11.log:18:23 < bkero> kanzure: blood substitutes
2008-09-11.log:18:24 < bkero> I was looking up Cray Blood that's used to cool computers, which brought me to fluorinert, which is a perfluorocarbon, which had some studies linked to it about using it for liquid breathing, or as a blood substitute.
2008-11-11.log:21:37 < fenn> does anyone else think it's odd that there _still_ isnt an artificial blood substitute?
2008-11-11.log:21:40 < bkero> "The coolant, called Fluorinert liquid was sometimes used as a human blood substitute during surgery." 
2008-11-11.log:21:45 < bkero> Fluorinert is a blood substitute in that it serves as an oxygen delivery system.  That's it though.
2012-01-28.log:21:17 < delinquentme> Approved an authorized blood substitute in Mexico in 2005
2013-07-05.log:13:29 < kanzure> "In 2010, Hard to Treat Diseases, Inc. (HTD) merged with an anonymous Canadian biotechnology company in hopes to enhance donated blood or hemoglobin based blood substitutes to have a shelf life of 42 days and higher levels of Nitric Oxide when packaged.[6]"
2013-07-05.log:13:32 <@fenn> but my reading about polyheme suggests it's only for additional oxygenation during surgery, not as a full blood substitute
2013-07-05.log:13:46 <@fenn> i'm amazed the military hasn't come up with a synthetic blood substitute yet, with all the money they throw at research
2015-11-24.log:14:25 < kanzure> what was the better-than-blood blood substitute that we knew about at one point?
2016-07-15.log:18:50 < kanzure> "In 2010, Hard to Treat Diseases, Inc. (HTD) merged with an anonymous Canadian biotechnology company in hopes to enhance donated blood or hemoglobin based blood substitutes to have a shelf life of 42 days and higher levels of Nitric Oxide when packaged.[6]"
2018-06-21.log:20:59 < kanzure> what is the current state of blood substitutes