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Includes activities, procedures, and tests done to ensure blood transfusion is properl collected, preserved, stored, and dispensed for later use in blood transfusion.
Blood banking
Branch of medicine that is concerened with transfusion of blood components, including proper selection and utilization of the aforementioned in the treatment or prevention of the disease.
Transfusion medicine
The governing body that inspects blood bank every year because blood is considered both as a biologic and as a drug
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First recorded blood transfusion performed
1492 Pope Innocent VII
Discovery of the circulatory system
1616 William Harvey
Animal to animal transfusion
1665 Richard Lower
Animal to human transfusion
1667 Jean Baptiste Denis
First successfull human transfusion, performed on a woman suffering from postpartum hemorrhage
1818/1829 James Blundell
First to work on blood transfusion and blood preservation techniques; director of first American Red Cross blood bank at Presbyterian Hospital
1941 Dr. Charles Drew
Sodium phosphate as anticoagulant
1869 Braxton Hicks
Sodium citrate as anticoagulant
1914 Albert Hustin
Determine minimum non-toxic amount of citrate needed to prevent anticoagulation
1915 Richard Lewisohn
Citrate dextrose as anticoagulant
1916 Rous and Turner
Acid citrate dextrose as anticoagulant
1943 Loutit and Mollison
Utilized glycerol to extend RBC lifespan by 10 years
1950 Audrey Smith