Historical Persoectives and Current Trends

Question 1

Practiced animal-to-human transfusion

Answer 1

Jean Baptiste Denis (1492)

Question 2

Discovered blood type AB

Answer 2

Alfred Von Descatello & Adriano Sturlie (1902)

Question 3

Discovered subgroups of A

Answer 3

Von Dungern & Hirszfeld (1911)

Question 4

Discovered the Rh blood group

Answer 4

Karl Landsteiner & Alex Wiener (1940)

Question 5

First to carry out vein-to-vein transfusion by using multiple syringes and a special skin cannula

Answer 5

Edward E. Lindemann

Question 6

Designed the syringe-valve apparatus for practical blood transfusion

Answer 6

Unger

Question 7

Recommended the use of Na Phosphate as anticoagulant for blood transfusion

Answer 7

Braxton Hicks (1869)

Question 8

Reported the use of Na citrate as an anticoagulant for blood transfusion

Answer 8

Albert Hustin (1914)

Question 9

Determined the minimum amount of cjtrate used for anticoagulation and demonstrated its non-toxicity in small small amounts

Answer 9

Richard Lewisohn (1915)

Question 10

Introduced the formula for the preservative ACD

Answer 10

Loutit & Mellison (1943)

Question 11

Introduced CPD (less acidic)

Answer 11

Gibson (1957)

Question 12

First to coin the phrase “blood bank”

Answer 12

Bernard Fantus

Question 13

Father of Modern Blood Bank and the first director of the American Red Cross

Answer 13

Charles Drew (1941)

Question 14

Developed the first cell separator and the fractionation method

Answer 14

Edwin Cohn (1951)

Question 15

Performed the first reported therapeutic plasmapheresis using centrifugation

Answer 15

A. Solomon & J.L. Fahey (1960s)

Question 16

Described a system in which blood is collected into collapsible bag of polyvinyl resin

Answer 16

Carl Walter & William Murphy (1952)