Atmospheric pressure air plasma treatment of human blood plasma: a kinetic model of coagulation

Summary form only given. We observe that floating electrode dielectric barrier discharge (FE-DBD) electric plasma is able to significantly hasten human blood plasma clot formation and influence normal blood protein concentrations. Here, a better understanding of influence of FE-DBD is needed and we propose a first step in this direction - an explanation of influence of FE-DBD on ion concentrations in blood plasma. The presented model compares normal blood coagulation rate with blood undergoing e-plasma treatment by assuming linear relationship between ion concentrations in blood plasma and positive radical production by e-plasma at the surface of blood. Electric plasma is effective in increase of Ca²⁺ concentration through a redox mechanism: [Ca²⁺R^2-]+H_(H2O) ^- harrk_Ca|k_-Ca[H^-R^2-] _(H2O) ^-+Ca_(H2O) ^2-. This mechanism is provided by hydrogen ions generated in air plasma through a sequence of ion-molecular processes