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)