Table 3.

Physical and physiological features of PFOCs in comparison to RBCs

	RBCs	PFOCs
Gas transport	Chemically bound	Physically dissolved
Gases	O2-, CO2-sensitive to oxidative gases	Universal gas dissolubility regardless to oxidative properties
Size	8000–10,000 nm	~ 200 nm (nano-scaled)
Microcirculation	Effected by plasma skimming	Not effected by plasma skimming