Even a small increase or decrease in blood volume has an effect of blood pressure. When an accident victim suffers significant blood loss, the person is transfused with a plasma rather than whole blood. Why is plasma effective in meeting the immediate threat to life?|||Blood is preferable, but often due to limit of blood supply and time, we somtimes need to infuse volume into a person suffering hemorrhage immediately. Determining their blood type can take time, and we can only infuse the right blood type (example give O to A patient but not B blood to the A patient)
Often accidents lead to sudden loss of blood, which causes hypovolemic shock, a emergency situation that will lead to death if left alone. In order to maintain proper volume levels in the patient in order to prevent hypoxia, we give them plasma to restore their blood volume level
After the patient recovers from the shock do we try to administer the patient blood
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