Blood Bank(HISTORY)

• Pope Innocent VI was the first recorded blood transfusion performed, resulting in his death from severe intravascular coagulation.
• Giacomo di San Genesio performed blood transfusion on Pope Innocent VI (1616).
• A B (1927) Karl Landsteiner & Alexander Wiener, Rh blood group
• Erwin Memorial Blood Bank, the first community-based blood center, was established in San Francisco under Dr. Erwin Redlener in 1941.
• Coook County Hospital, the world's first blood bank, was established in Chicago under Dr. Bernard Fantus in 1941.
• William Harvey discovered the circulatory system (1665).
• Richard Lower performed animal to animal transfusion (Dog to Dog) (1667).
• Jean Baptiste Denis performed animal to human transfusion (Sheep to Human) (1818-1829).
• James Blundell was the first successful human blood transfusion performed on a woman suffering from post-partum hemorrhage (1941).
• Charles Dew first worked on blood transfusion and blood preservation techniques.
• Blood preservation techniques
• Blood preservation techniques were first implemented at the first American cross-blood bank at Presbyterian Hospital in 1869.
• Blood transfusion techniques were first implemented at the first American cross-blood bank at Presbyterian Hospital in 1869.
• Rh factor was discovered by Landsteiner and Levine in 1940, leading to the development of Rh-negative blood banks during World War II.