Human-to-Human Transfusion

Question 1

performs the first human to human blood transfusion

Answer 1

Philip Syng Physick
(1795)

Question 2

Father of american surgery

Answer 2

Philip Syng Physick
(1795)

Question 3

“Donor and recipient are of the same
species”

Answer 3

John Henry Leacock
(1816)

Question 4

First recorded human-to-human transfusion

Answer 4

James Blundell
(1818)

Question 5

Successfully transfused a woman dying from postpartum hemorrhage with blood from her husband

Answer 5

James Blundell (August 1825)

Question 6

performed ten transfusions, five of which proved beneficial to his patients, and
published these results

Answer 6

James Blundell (1825-1830)

Question 7

first successful whole blood transfusion to treat hemophilia

Answer 7

Samuel Armstrong Lane (1840)

Question 8

first surgery using direct blood transfusion

Answer 8

George Washington Crile (1906)

Question 9

Observed red cell lysis in the blood of a woman who died after receiving a transfusion of sheep blood (incompatibility between species)

Answer 9

Emil ponfick (late 1800s)

Question 10

Observation that human red cells would lyse when mixed in vitro with the sera of other animals

Answer 10

Leonard Landois (late 1800s)

Question 11

Set the stage for the study of the immunologic basis of blood incompatibility

Answer 11

Leonard Landois (late 1800s)

Question 12

uses antiseptics to control infection during
transfusions

Answer 12

Joseph Lister
(1867)

Question 13

Described platelets

Answer 13

William Osler
(1874)

Question 14

birthdate of karl and was became the basis for the World’s blood donor day

Answer 14

June 14, 1868