TY - JOUR
AU - MOLLISON, P.L.
AB - SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION by P. L. MOLLISON, M.B., M.R.C.P. In the war of 1914-18 the conclusion had already been reached of citric acid in suitable proportions not only diminished that the most effective single step in the treatment of severe caramel formation but greatly improved the preservative wound shock was the restoration of blood volume by blood properties of the solution as judged by the survival in vivo of transfusion. Inevitably, therefore, great attention has been the erythrocytes after transfusion. There seems to be little given to all aspects of this subject in the present war and doubt that acidified citrate-glucose mixtures are the most knowledge has advanced very considerably. satisfactory blood preservatives yet discovered. Apparatus.—One of the most important if undramatic Plasma and Serum.—The only blood substitute available advances has been the introduction of a simple standardised in the last war with an osmotic pressure of the order of human apparatus for taking and giving blood by a closed method, plasma was gum saline, which was eventually shown to have that is to say, one in which the blood does not come into serious disadvantages despite the good immediate results attending its use. Great attention has been given in 
TI - RECENT WORK ON BLOOD TRANSFUSION IN BRITAIN
JF - British Medical Bulletin
DO - 10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a070177
DA - 1943-07-01
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SP - 50
EP - 52
VL - 1
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
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