Fig. 2

Scheme of the approach to the plasma exchange (1) Aspiration of dog’s blood into a syringe and injection of this blood into the autotransfusion system; (2) Anticoagulation of the aspirated blood with sodium citrate; (3) separation of dog’s blood into plasma and red blood cells in the autotransfusion system; (4) collecting bag for dog’s plasma; (5) donor plasma; (6) aspiration of the erythrocyte concentrate from the autotransfusion system in exange with aspiration of donor plasma, injection of the erythrocytes or plasma into the dog; (7) substitution of calcium as required