Introduction to Blood Banking Questions with complete Solutions Rated A+

Introduction to Blood Banking Questions with complete Solutions Rated A+ Immunohematology - Answers Study of blood group antigens and antibodies; Blood banking Blood Bank - Answers One of the major divisions in a hospital laboratory that provides safe blood to patients by performing blood screening, grouping and compatibility testing Pope Innocent VII - Answers First person to be transfused with blood (1492) Jean Baptiste Denis - Answers Practiced animal-to-human transfusion (1492) James Blundell - Answers Successfully transfused human blood to woman suffering from postpartum hemorrhage (1829) Karl Landsteiner - Answers Discovered the ABO blood group and explained the serious reactions that occur in humans as a result of incompatible transfusion (1901) Alfred von Descatello and Adriano Sturlie - Answers Discovered blood type AB (1902) von Dungern(/Dungren) and Hirszfeld - Answers Discovered subgroups of A (1911) Karl Landsteiner and Alex Wiener - Answers Discovered the Rh blood group (1940) Edward E. Lindemann - Answers First to succeed in coming up with appropriate device for transfusion using multiple syringes and a special skin cannula for puncturing the vein through the skin Unger - Answers Designed syringe-valve apparatus for practical blood transfusion Braxton Hicks - Answers Recommended use of sodium phosphate as anticoagulant for blood transfusion (1869) Albert Hustin - Answers Reported the use of sodium citrate as an anticoagulant for blood transfusion (1914) Richard Lewisohn - Answers Determined minimum amount of Na Citrate. Proved that it was effective as an anticoagulant, at 0.2%. It was not toxic to humans even if 2500 mL of it was transfused. (1915) Richard Weil - Answers Found that blood could be stored in refrigerated conditions (1915) Rous and Turner - Answers Introduced citrate dextrose for preservation of blood (1916) Loutit and Mollison - Answers Introduced the formula for acid citrate dextrose (1943) Gibson - Answers Introduced citrate phosphate dextrose which replaced acid citrate dextrose as standard preservative (1957) US FDA - Answers Approved use of adenine for blood preservation (1978) Percy Oliver - Answers Established the first blood donor service (1921) Mayo Clinic - Answers First true predecessor of modern blood bank (1935) Bernard Fantus - Answers Coined the term blood bank (1935) Charles Drew - Answers Pioneer work in blood transfusion and blood preservation leading to the establishment of blood banks (1941) Charles Drew - Answers Father of Modern Blood Bank Edwin Cohn - Answers Devised a method to fractionate blood for transfusions with cold ethanol method (1951) A. Solomon and J. L. Fahey - Answers Used centrifugation to separate separate whole blood; performed first reported therapeutic plasmapheresis (1960s) Carl Walter and William Murphy - Answers Described system to collect blood in collapsible bag of polyvinyl resin (1952) Weil and Ottenberg - Answers First attempt of crossmatch procedure; first major and minor crossmatch (1907) 1976 - Answers When did AABB make minor crossmatch unnecessary? 1980s - Answers When was immediate spin crossmatch implemented in the absence of antibodies in the antibody screen? 1990s - Answers When did the blood banking community propose the elimination of in vitro crossmatch? Peter Perlmann and Eva Engvall - Answers Invented ELISA (1971) Dr. Yves Lapierre - Answers Developed Gel technology (1985) Genetics - Answers the study of transmission of inherited characteristics Locus - Answers Segment of DNA arranged along the chromosome at specific position Alleles - Answers Gene at a specific locus that differs in their nucleotide sequence Polymorphic - Answers Having two or more possible alleles at a locus (ex: Rh) Allelic - Answers Term used to describe one of two or more different genes that may occupy a specific locus on a chromosome. Antithetical - Answers Opposite form of a gene, different allele; opposite genes encoded at the