THIS MOD IS REQUIRED TO BE ABOVE REAL SONAR, NEUROTRAUMA, AND MY OTHER MOD IF USED: REAL SONAR MEDICAL ITEM RECIPES PATCH FOR NEUROTRAUMA IN YOUR MOD LIST TO PROPERLY FUNCTION.
Known bug: when applying plasma for the first time during a round, it can sometimes cause blood pressure to plummet instantly. Unknown why this happens, but the blood pressure normalizes itself shortly, assuming there's not other factors preventing it
This mod adds the ability to deconstruct blood bags into blood plasma and red blood cell cultures. Blood plasma only inherits the blood type letter, red blood cell cultures inherit the blood type letter and the + or -
You can then combine compatible blood plasma types with red blood cell cultures of your desired blood type to craft new blood bags in the medical fabricator, essentially converting blood bag types.
Red blood cell cultures can be grown to multiply themselves x3 with saline, alien blood, and 25% of a dementonite.
Blood plasma compatability roughly reflects real life plasma compatibility, which is mostly the opposite of blood bag compatibility:
AB plasma is the universal donor and can be combined with all RBC types
A plasma is compatible with A and O RBC cultures
B plasma is compatible with B and O RBC cultures
O plasma is only compatible with O RBC cultures
Blood plasma can be used as a medicine with several effects:
- Doubles healing rate for first and second degree burns on the whole body, stacking with bandages
- Stabilizes blood Ph (reduces both acidosis and alkalosis)
- Raises blood pressure by roughly 30% (the same as ringer's solution)
- Temporarily stops sepsis from increasing
- Temporarily stops liver failure from causing neurotrauma
These effects are roughly equivalent to what plasma transfusions are used for IRL, though within the confines of what neurotrauma afflictions allow in regards to accuracy to IRL.
Applying an incorrect plasma type to a patient will cause a half strength hemotransfusion shock.
Blood plasma infusions will show on the hematology analyzer.
You can now deconstruct blood plasma and red blood cell cultures into saline and stabilozine, respectively, following how neurotrauma blood packs deconstruct into the same items. Now you can get rid of those annoying extra RBC cultures taking up space and turn them into useful ingredients.
