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. 2012 Oct;56(4):1173-7.
doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2012.04.072. Epub 2012 Aug 25.

Direct blood transfusions

James G Chandler  1 , Theresa L Chin, Max V Wohlauer
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Direct blood transfusions

James G Chandler et al. J Vasc Surg. 2012 Oct.
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Fig 1
Fig 1
A, Blundell’s Gravitator supported by an overturned chair on the recipient’s bed; B, Surgical resident Michael DeBakey’s hand-cranked roller pump (A simple continuous flow blood transfusion instrument. New Orleans Med Surg J 193; 87:386-9); C, Lester Unger’s two-channel stopcock, to minimize clotting by allowing saline to flow by gravity into the recipient while blood is being withdrawn from the donor at position 1 and, when turned to 2, directs saline to the donor while blood is infused into the recipient (A new method of syringe transfusion. J Am Med Ass 1915;64:582-4).
Fig 2
Fig 2
Matthäus Purmann (1648-1721) of Breslau, Germany circa 1684 performing lamb-to-human transfusion to cure leprosy; (C) and (E) represent tubes with silver connectors and linen warming jackets to minimize clotting. This picture is frequently captioned as depicting Richard Lower or Jean Baptiste Denis, accompanied in the latter instance by erroneous allusion to Antoine Mauroy’s transfusions, which were sourced from the femoral artery of a calf.
Fig 3
Fig 3
Mary Lambert and her father’s forearm illustrating Alexis Carrel’s triangulation anastomotic technique.
Fig 4
Fig 4
Non-suture anastomotic techniques (Ottenberg R. Transfusion and arterial anastomosis. Ann Surg 1908:47:486-505; Hull AJ. Direct transfusion of blood. Br Med J 1917;2:683-4).
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References

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