Blood transfusion; additional historical aspects. Part 2. The introduction of chemical anticoagulants; trials of ‘Phosphate of soda’ | Zendy

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Blood transfusion; additional historical aspects. Part 2. The introduction of chemical anticoagulants; trials of ‘Phosphate of soda’

Author(s) -

Boulton F. E.

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

transfusion medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.471

H-Index - 59

eISSN - 1365-3148

pISSN - 0958-7578

DOI - 10.1111/tme.12074

Subject(s) - medicine , transfusion medicine , hematology , blood transfusion , intensive care medicine , blood preservation , diphosphoglycerate , surgery , physiology , hemoglobin

SUMMARY The pioneers of transfusion medicine around the turn of the 19th into the 20th centuries struggled with the awkward propensity of shed blood to clot. This article, a companion to a previous one (Boulton, 2013, Submitted for publication), describes in more detail how they recognised a potential for chemical anticoagulants which led to the introduction for a short period of sodium phosphate to aid blood transfusion: these cases preceded the introduction of citrate (Mollison, 2000, British Journal of Haematology , 108, 13–18).

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