Blood components include: red blood cell concentrates or suspensions; platelets produced from whole blood or via apheresis; Granulocyte, plasma; and cryoprecipitate.
Some products for topical use, such as serum eye drops, have also been recently classified as blood components.
[2] Plasma derivatives are plasma proteins prepared under pharmaceutical manufacturing conditions, including: albumin; coagulation factor concentrates; and immunoglobulins.
to differentiate them from blood substitutes, which generally refer to artificially produced products.
Although many blood products have the effect of volume expansion, the group is usually distinguished from volume expanders, which generally refers to artificially produced substances and are thereby within the scope of blood substitutes.