Nutrition and Blood

500 ml Sodium Chloride 0.9% w/v Glucose 5% w/v intravenous infusion BP in a Viaflex container.

This preparation is a plasma substitute. It contains modified fluid gelatin which behaves in a similar way to natural plasma albumin.It is used as a short-term measure to expand and maintain blood volume after haemorrhage, acute injury or surgery, burns,...