Patent ID: 6986905

Claim:
A pharmaceutical composition consisting essentially of: a first substance comprising sodium chloride in an amount between about 1.5% and 6.9% (w/v); a second substance comprising hydroxyethyl starch in an amount between about 3 and 18% total (w/v), at least 10% of said second substance having a molecular weight of about 25,000–45,000 atomic mass units; a third substance comprising at least one of sodium bicarbonate, potassium chloride, magnesium sulfate, calcium chloride, calcium gluconate, calcium lactate, sodium lactate, and Tris (Hydroxymethyl) aminomethane, wherein said third substance is present in an amount between about 0 and 5.4% total (w/v); and an injection comprising at least one of water, physiological saline, balanced buffers, glucose solution, sodium lactate solution, Tris solution, and glucose and sodium chloride solution, wherein said injection is present in an amount between about 75.1% and 95.5% total (w/v), wherein the total sodium ion concentration does not exceed an equivalent sodium ion concentration of 6.9% (w/v) sodium chloride solution.