Albert Hustin (1882–1967) was a Belgian

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. Hustin was born in Ethe and died in Uccle (

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–

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). In 1914, he was the first person to successfully practice non-direct

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s with

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used as an

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. The second one was the Argentinean researcher,

Luis Agote Luis Agote (September 22, 1868 – November 12, 1954) was an Argentine physician and researcher. He was the first to perform a non-direct blood transfusion using sodium citrate as an anticoagulant. The procedure took place in Rawson hospital i ...

. Like Agote, Hustin added sodium citrate to the blood to preserve it, and stop it from clotting.

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1882 births 1967 deaths 20th-century Belgian physicians People from Virton {{Belgium-med-bio-stub