BB LEC: History of Immunohematology

Pope Innocent VII

First recorded blood transfusion recipient

Richard Lower

Successfully transfused blood from one dog to another

Jean Baptiste Denis

First successful animal-to-human transfusion

Philip Syng Physick

Father of American Surgery

James Blundell

First successful postpartum hemorrhage transfusion

John Braxton Hicks

Recommended Sodium Phosphate as anticoagulant

Karl Landsteiner

Discovered ABO blood group system

Alfred von Decastello & Adriano Sturli

Identified AB blood group

Ludvig Hektoen

Suggested that the safety transfusion might be improved by crossmatching

Richard Weil

First performed ABO typing and compatibility testing

Albert Hustin

Reported sodium citrate as anticoagulant

Richard Lewisohn

Formulated optimum sodium citrate concentration

Francis Peyton Rous & Joseph Turner

Introduced citrate dextrose solution

Edwin J. Cohn

Developed cold ethanol fractionation

Karl Landsteiner & Alexander Wiener

Discovered Rh blood group system

John F. Loutit & Patrick Mollison

Introduced Acid Citrate Dextrose

Robin Coombs, Arthur Mourant & Robert Race

Described Anti-Human Globulin (AHG)

Louis Diamond

Developed umbilical vein exchange transfusion

John Gibson

Introduced Citrate Phosphate Dextrose (CPD)

Joseph Garrott Allen

Linked paid donation to hepatitis risk

Scott Murphy & Frank Gardner

Showed platelets could be stored at room temperature