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Byron A. Myhre, MD, PhD

JAMA. 1984;251(5):650-652.

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History of Previous Transfusion Therapy

With the usual availability of adequate amounts and types of blood that we encounter today, it is hard to visualize the difficulty that faced physicians wishing to transfuse before World War II. The account by Louis Diamond¹ chronicles how between the years of 1667 and 1937, the major accent in transfusion therapy was direct transfusion from donor to recipient, usually using some type of arteriovenous anastomosis,^2,3 a pump for direct transfusion,⁴ multiple syringes,⁵ various stopcocksyringe devices,⁶ or, occasionally, a paraffin-lined flask⁷ to hold the blood temporarily. No anticoagulant was used, the blood was not stored, all transfusions required the immediate availability of the donor, and the donor had to be bled in the proximity of the patient (often in an operating room). For these reasons, almost all transfusions were elective and given for chronic loss or decreased production of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Pathology, UCLA School of Medicine, Torrance, Calif.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Department of Pathology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1000 W Carson St, Torrance, CA 90509 (Dr Myhre).

A commentary on Fantus B: The therapy of the Cook County Hospital. JAMA 1937;109:128-131.

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