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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).