Blood Transfusion 1942, 1942.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health.

Genre:

Internet videos.

Nonfiction films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (video file)

Place of Publication:

1942,

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2020.

Language Note:

Language of resource: English

Summary:

An International Survey of the progress in blood transfusion techniques. Diagrams of what was believed to be the path of blood in the body, 200-1400 A.D. Discovery of path of circulation 1660-1800. 1901: Landsteiner discovers the Blood Groups. Differences between groups and how agglutination occurs. Blood tests. Solving the problem of preventing blood from clotting as soon as it leaves the body-anti-coagulants. Opens up the way to safe blood transfusion. 1917: Blood transfusions first introduced by American doctors during the Great War. British doctors begin transfusing blood. 1921: Need for civilian donors, organisation formed - London Blood Transfusion Service grows, idea spreads abroad. Post-war methods of blood transfusion. Central Institute for Blood Transfusion, Moscow. Methods of storing blood. Cadaver blood, method of extracting blood from recently dead body. Methods of storing blood in U.S.A., Spain. World War II, blood supply depots, recruiting donors. Work of Depots continued, testing donors, bleeding donors. The Army Blood Transfusion Service. Blood derivatives, for use in eases of shock, burns where whole blood not needed. Plasma. Preparation, clarification, bottling of blood plasma. Storage. Liquid and dried Serum - third part of blood which remains after clotting has occurred. Production, preparation, clarification and bottling of Serum. Freeze-dried. The Blood Transfusion Service today. A National Service for the good of the community.

Notes:

Description based on online resource (viewed on 02 November, 2021).

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