If you really need a "home made" blood volume expander, stick with sterilized sea water. The sodium chloride concentration is roughly equivilant to isotonic (normal) saline, i.e. 0.9%.
Do you have a reference for seawater being near isotonic? Everything I have read indicates seawater is significantly hypertonic (approx. 2.5%).
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