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- The First World War introduced transfusion methods to more doctors and in more standardized procedures than might have occurred in peacetime, and convinced them of its benefits. When these physicians returned home, blood transfusion gained a new place in civilian medical practice.
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Jan 22, 2020 · World War I introduced the weapons of modern warfare and with it more severe trauma. Advances in transfusion science paralleled the increased need for and use of transfusions on the battlefield. Two individuals, not related, Lawrence Bruce Robertson and Oswald Hope Robertson, deserve special mention.
The First World War introduced transfusion methods to more doctors and in more standardized procedures than might have occurred in peacetime, and convinced them of its benefits. When these physicians returned home, blood transfusion gained a new place in civilian medical practice.
Oct 10, 2024 · The outbreak of World War I brought a dramatic increase in the need for effective blood transfusion techniques. In 1914, Belgian doctor Albert Hustin demonstrated that sodium citrate could prevent blood from clotting, enabling indirect transfusion.
Jan 14, 2015 · This review explores the historical setting behind the development of blood transfusion up to the start of the First World War and on how they progressed during the war and afterwards. A fresh look may renew interest in how a novel medical speciality responded to the needs of war and of post-war society.
- F. Boulton, D. J. Roberts
- 2014
Aug 20, 2015 · At the start of the First World War blood transfusion technology was largely untested and not widely accepted. Blood types had first been identified at the turn of the century, but where...
In august 1914, at the start of World War I, blood transfusion remains quite infrequent, with rough methods, inaccurate indications and poor results. The direct surgical techniques of arteriovenous anastomosis proved ill-adapted to the emergency conditions of war wounds.
Apr 1, 2003 · At the end of the 1930s, with war approaching, the resolution of problems with storage of blood and the discovery of new techniques for separating and storing plasma dramatically changed transfusion practice.
