Blood bank
Banco de sangre
- Date
- 1914–1937 · confidence high
- Place
- Chicago, Illinois, United States (Cook County Hospital)
- Credited to
- Bernard Fantus (Cook County, 1937); Sergei Yudin (Moscow, 1930); Frederic Durán-Jordà (Barcelona, 1936); Oswald Robertson (front-line depot, 1917); citrate anticoagulation (Hustin, Agote, Lewisohn, 1914)
- People
- 👤 Bernard Fantus1874–1940👤 Charles Richard Drew1904–1950👤 Frederic Durán-Jordà1905–1957👤 Sergei Yudin1891–1954
- Field
- Life & health
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What it is
Refrigerated storage of citrated blood for deferred use. It separated donation from transfusion and created modern blood logistics.
Durán-Jordà organised the first large-scale transfusion service for the front in Barcelona (1936); Fantus coined the term 'blood bank' in 1937.
What it led to
- War surgery and dried plasma in the Second World War
- Voluntary donation and the Red Cross
- Plasma fractionation (Cohn)
Built on
- ABO blood groups1901
- Blood groups and compatible transfusion1901–1907
- Transfusion with citrated blood9 de noviembre de 1914
- Domestic electric refrigerator1913–1927
- Electric refrigeration
- Citrate as an anticoagulant
Made possible
- Freeze-dried plasma
- Cardiac surgery
- Blood products