Question

Which type of Sodium Citrate is best for human injection... Monobasic Sodium Citrate or Tribasic Sodium Citrate... and exactly what is the differece between them ??

Which one works best as a human blood anticoagulant ??

Thank You !

Answer 1

Sodium citrate is a term in general used for all types of sodium salts of citric acid

Monobasic sodium citrate means only 1 sodium (Na) is attached to it

Where as tribasic sodium citrate also known as trisodium citrate has 3 sodium (Na) attached to it.

in medical studies tribasic sodium citrate (trisodium citrate) is used as human blood anticoagulant.

Working of sodium citrate

In Sodium citrate it binds the calcium present in our blood cells and forms a complex and due to this complex formation the process or mechanism by which the blood is calculated gets disturbed and hence sodium citrate works as a anti blood coagulant.

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