Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha

Osami Shinonome

Kenji Ishikawa

Akira Mochizuki

Yoshihiro Yokoo

Shinichi Kora

There is a disclosure of a method and a container for storing a blood or blood component, including a sheet material having a plurality of layers and wherein the layers are adhered to each other, at least a portion of the layer which contacts blood or blood components is composed of a block copolymer having a micro-phase separating structure. In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a container which has excellent properties in relation to the storage of platelet, gas permeability and mechanical strength. Also, there is a disclosure of a method and a tube for transfusing blood or a blood component, including a tube material having a plurality of the same layers as the above.

Container for storing blood or blood component

A medical device molded from a highly safe resin composition prepared by blending a vinyl chloride-based resin, a dialkyl malate, and a stabilizer is provided. The resin composition of the invention has physical properties equivalent to conventional resin compositions having blended therein a phthalate as the plasticizing agent, but is safer and has a higher blood storability. The medical devide may most preferably be a blood bag system.

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Shizuoka, Japan

Osami Shinonome