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Pulmonary circulation is the flow of blood to and from the lungs
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Explained that blood is pumped by the heart and circulated through the body. Recieved much criticism for his experiments on animals.
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using a microscope Jan Swammerdam becomes the first person to observe red blood cells
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using a microscope, Malpighi observes the capillary system, the intricate network of vessels that connect veins and arteries
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Using a goose quill and bladder, Richard Lower performs a blood transfusion by taking b lood from when dog and giving it to a second dog
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Denis uses 9 oz of lambs blood to transfuse it into a teenage boy suffering from a fever. The procedure was successful and Denis performed transfusions on 6 others!
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Richard Lower gives a patient 7 oz of sheeps blood in front of the royal society, the patient recovers
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Credited with the first human to human blood transfusion in a medical journal all though none of his work had been published
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Observes that small fragments in bone marrow make up bulk of clots in blood vessels
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Alfred von Decastello identify blood groups "A" "B" and "AB" based on aggulation
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Dr. Ottenburg performs first successful cross transfusion. He continues to use it later in a total of 128 cases
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Albert Hustin discovers sodium citrate will prevent blood clots
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Dr. Wel discovers you can refrigerate citrated blood and save it for a few days.
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Dr. Richard Lewisohn formulates the right amount of sodium citrate to be mixed in with blood to prevent blood clots. he states 2% is the right amount
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At the Rockefeller institute Francis Peyton Rous develops a glucose citrus solution that allows blood to be stored for a few weeks before transfusion
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Before the battle of Cambrai in WWI, Oswald uses Rous's solution to store blood type O. creating the first blood depot.
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Percy Lane Oliver begins a blood donor service with a group of volunteers availabe on a 24-hour call. Volunteers were screened for disease and blood types then had their names taken down.
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Soviets build facilities to store blood for transfusions in hospitals
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With the need for blood transfusions for soldiers in the Spanish civil war, Federico Duran-Jorda sets up aservice that can store and transport blood to soldiers on the front line
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Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune sets up a similar service as the Madrid blood service for soldiers called Spanish-Canadian blood transfusion Institute
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term coined by Dr. Bernard Fantus in chicago IL
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Drs. Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener discover the Rh blood group by studying red blood cells and determine they are ant-bodies
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due to the shortage of blood plasma in britian during the civil war Cohn searches for a subsitute by breaking up its protiens
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For the war effort and lack of blood plasma the surgeon general sets up a civilian blood donor service to help the war effort
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Dr. Paul Beeson links cases of Juandice to blood or plasma transfusions
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Dr. Carl W. Walter develops a plastic bag for the collection of blood. before this, glass bottles were used to store blood, but they were easy to break and were easily contaminated which made walter create a new device for storage. revolutionizing blood collection.
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through x-Rays the Hemogoblin is found in red blood cells and determined that it carries oxygen
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discovered by Drs.Judith Pool, cryoprecipiates are found to have greater clotting power and given to hemophiliacs
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secratary of health, education, and welfare gives the responsibilt of blood banking to the FDA
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Dr. Blumberg discovers a virus in hepatitus B that releases antibodies. he therefor makes a test to detect this hepatitis B antibody
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an autoimmune defficiency is named GRID after its assciation with gay men
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the CDC determines that GRID is a blood borne disease
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French doctors isolate the virus that causes AIDS. they loate it in the swollen lymph node and name it LAV
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after many americans had been diagnosed with AIDS screen test begin to detect the presence or absence of AIDS
