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Jan 1, 1250
Eminent Cairo
Physician and author, Eminent Cairo, discovers how blood flows in and out of the lungs -
Jan 1, 1553
Michael Servetus
Spanish physician and theologist, Michael Servetus, rebuttles Galen's theory and suggests that blood flows to one side of the heart to the other through the lungs. He was burned at the stake for opposing the Trinity. -
Jan Swammerdam
He is thought to be the first perosn to observe red blood cells at only 21-years-old -
Richard Lower
He performed the very first (recorded) blood transfusion between two dogs, successfully resuscitating the injured dog -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
He provided a better description of red blood cells. Approximating them to "25,000 times smaller than a grain of sand" -
William Hewson
He described his reasearch in blood coagulation. He called the coagulant a "coaguable lymph" which is now known as "fibrogen" -
Philip Syng Physick
He was creditied for being the first to perform a human-to-human blood transfusion; but his never published, making it unofficial. -
James Blundell
He was RECORDED as being the first to perfom a human-to-human blood transfusion -
Sir William Osler
He observed the small cell fragments in bone marrow and sees that they made up clots formed in blood vessels, they are later known as "platelets" -
Karl Landsteiner
He publsihed a paer on his discovery of different types; "a", "b", and "c", later known as "o" -
Dr. Ludrig Hertoen
He recommended that the blood of donors should be checked to see if it was compatible or incompatible with the patient, BEFORE doing the blood transfusion -
Dr. Reuben Ottenberg
He performed the first, cross matching, human-to-human blood tranfusion thatg actually kept the patient alive. He was successful in 128 other cases -
Albert Hustin & Luis Agote
Both, around the same time, discover that adding sodium citrate to blood helps prevent clotting -
Dr. Richard Weil
He determined that citrated blood can be stored in the refrigerator for a few days, then can still be used for blood transfusions -
Franicis P. Rous & J.R Turner
They together developed a citrate-glucose solution that allows blood to be stored for weeks -
Dr. Oswald Robertson
He stored O type blood, using the citrate-glucose solution, and established the first "blood depot" -
Percy Lane Oliver
He began a blood donor service; he had his volunteers tested for diseases, tested their blood types, and collected their contact information in case they needed an emergency donation -
Soviets
The soviets were first to establish network facilities that store blood for blood transfusions -
Mayo Clinic
They established an organized blood transfusion clinic and began storing citrated blood -
Federico Duran-Jorda
He established the Barcelona Blood Transfusion Service. He collected, stored and sent out (in refrigeratos in cars) sent them to the front line hospitals during the Spanish War -
Dr. Norman Bethune
He established a similar mobile blood service, but in Madrid, Spain -
Dr. Bernard Fantus
He used the term "blood bank" to describe blood donation centers. Obviously, the name stuck -
Dr. Philip Levine & R.E Stetson
They discovered an anti-body, inherited by the father when the mother became pregnant, that triggered the ant-body production in the mother -
Dr. Karl Landsteiner & Alexander Wiener
They discovered the Rh blood group. They also discovered that the anti-body that Levine and Stetson is anti-Rh -
Charles Drew
He finds a way to seperate and store blood plasm, which serves as a great blood substitute -
The Red Cross
They were able to collect 13 million units of blood over the course of war -
Dr. Isidor Ravdin
He sucessfully helped victims from Peral Harbor by using albumin to increase blood volume -
American Association of Blood Banks
American Association of Blood Banks is established to form a national network of blood banks. Their first meeting was held in Dallas, Texas -
Dr. Carl W. Walter
He revolutionized blood collection by coming up with a plastic bag that could store the blood efficiently -
Dr. Max Perutz
He was able to do a type of x-ray on red blood cells and see that it was made up of hemoglobin. The structure that is responsible for carrying oxygen -
Dr. Baruch Blumberg
He identified something on the surface of the Hepatitus B virus that triggers anti-body production. His work is important because it lead to how to identify Hepatitus B in blood donors or patients in general -
GRID
GRID (aka Gay-Related Immunodedeficiency Disease), was known as that because they found it more commonly in gay males. Later on, it was changed to AIDS (aka Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) -
Dr. Robert Gallo
He identified the virus that causes AIDS and he calls it "HTLV III" -
United States VS. France
The United States and France have a legal battle on who gets credit for discovering AIDS; evetually, the two come to an agreement and share the credit and profit from AIDS' medical kits -
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Testing
Throughout time, more testing for more diseases are in place. Whenever someone is going to donate blood, they test for anti-HTLV-I, hepatitis C, HIV-1 and HIV-2 antibodies, HIV p24 antigen, and Nucleic Acid Amplification Testing (NAT). NAT is responsible for HIV and HCV
