What is Octaplasma®?
December 6, 2024
|By WP Admin
A: Octaplasma® is standardized human plasma for intravenous administration. It is a Health Canada regulated medicinal product for human use.
Octaplasma® is made from pooled plasma collected from donors in the United States.1 The Octaplasma® manufacturing process ensures that each bag of plasma has standardized content of clotting factors and proteins. It is devoid of antibodies implicated in transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) pathogenesis and employs multiple dedicated steps to eliminate transfusion-transmissible infectious agents, allergic and citrate reactions.2 Octaplasma® is manufactured by Octapharma AB in Stockholm, Sweden.3
