Cadaveric blood transfusion is the
transfusion of blood from a dead body to a living person.
History
In 1929, surgeon Vladimir Shamov of
Kharkiv
Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.[USSR
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, reported the experimental use of cadaveric
blood
Blood is a body fluid in the circulatory system of humans and other vertebrates that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells, and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells. Blood in th ...
and demonstrated the absence of toxicity. Russian surgeon
Sergei Yudin pioneered the transfusion of cadaveric blood and performed this successfully for the first time on March 23, 1930. Yudin also reported his first seven
clinical
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See also
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transfusions
Blood transfusion is the process of transferring blood products into a person's circulation intravenously. Transfusions are used for various medical conditions to replace lost components of the blood. Early transfusions used whole blood, but mo ...
with cadaveric blood at the Fourth Congress of
Ukrainian
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Surgeons at Kharkiv in September 1930. The discovery that cadaveric blood could be stored safely provided time for both
serological
Serology is the scientific study of serum and other body fluids. In practice, the term usually refers to the diagnostic identification of antibodies in the serum. Such antibodies are typically formed in response to an infection (against a given mi ...
tests and
bacteriological examinations. Cadaveric blood was never used widely, even in Russia. From these studies, however, developed a variety of means and methods for the collection, preservation, and storage of blood for transfusion, all of which may be grouped under the umbrella term "
blood bank
A blood bank is a center where blood gathered as a result of blood donation is stored and preserved for later use in blood transfusion. The term "blood bank" typically refers to a department of a hospital usually within a Clinical Pathology laborat ...
". Although cadaver blood transfusion did not catch on in the
United States
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, physician
Bernard Fantus
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modified the Soviet idea by preserving blood from healthy living persons. Drawing on earlier work involving preservatives and anticoagulants, Fantus added the element of refrigeration and in 1937 established the first blood bank in the United States at
Chicago's Cook County Hospital
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.
[(Robert A. Kilduffe and ]Michael DeBakey
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, 1942)
References
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* Shamov VN and Kostriukov M. Questions of homoplasty from the cadaver. Blood transfusion from cadaver, Trudi Ukrain. Suezda. Khir. 1929;18:184.
* Shamov WN. The transfusion of stored cadaver blood Lancet 1937; 2, August 7:306-309
* Judine S. La transfusion du sang de cadavre á l'homme. Paris: Masson et Cie, 1933.
* Yudin S. Transfusion of stored cadaver blood. Practical consideration: The first thousand cases. Lancet 1937;2:361 - 6.
* Yudin S. Transfusion of cadaver blood. JAMA 1936;106:997-9.
* Swan H, Schechter D. The transfusion of blood from cadavers. A historical review. Surgery 1962;52:545 - 1962.
* Kilduffe R, DeBakey M. The blood bank and the technique and therapeutics of transfusion. St. Louis: The C.V.Mosby Company, 1942, pp.196-197
* Kevorkian J, Marra JJ. Transfusion of Human Corps Blood without Additives.Transfusion. 1964;4:112-7.
Transfusion medicine
Russian inventions
Soviet inventions
Health in the Soviet Union