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Canada's transfusion medicine pioneer: Lawrence Bruce Robertson

Canada's transfusion medicine pioneer: Lawrence Bruce Robertson The two world wars of the first half of the 20th century provided much of the impetus for the development of the fundamentals of blood banking and transfusion medicine as we understand them today. At the beginning of World War I in 1914, the field was in the earliest stages of its rational scientific development, stimulated by Landsteiner's observations defining the major human blood groups. In the early years of the 20th century, New York was a center of great activity in the development of transfusion practice in clinical medicine and in the fields of compatibility testing, transfusion techniques, and anticoagulation for preservation and storage of blood. It was into this hotbed of blood transfusion activity that two young physicians, by coincidence both having the surname Robertson, arrived in 1910 (Lawrence Bruce) and in 1915 (Oswald Hope) to start their postgraduate careers. Both went on to make fundamental contributions to transfusion practice in the management of battlefield casualties in Europe between 1915 and 1918, which significantly advanced the clinical applications of transfusion medicine. The coincidence of surname has led to some confusion as to their respective contributions. The contribution of Oswald H. Robertson (“the American Robertson”) has been http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Transfusion Wiley

Canada's transfusion medicine pioneer: Lawrence Bruce Robertson

Transfusion , Volume 41 (2) – Jan 1, 2001

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Wiley
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Copyright © 2001 Wiley Subscription Services
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0041-1132
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1537-2995
DOI
10.1046/j.1537-2995.2001.41020283.x
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Abstract

The two world wars of the first half of the 20th century provided much of the impetus for the development of the fundamentals of blood banking and transfusion medicine as we understand them today. At the beginning of World War I in 1914, the field was in the earliest stages of its rational scientific development, stimulated by Landsteiner's observations defining the major human blood groups. In the early years of the 20th century, New York was a center of great activity in the development of transfusion practice in clinical medicine and in the fields of compatibility testing, transfusion techniques, and anticoagulation for preservation and storage of blood. It was into this hotbed of blood transfusion activity that two young physicians, by coincidence both having the surname Robertson, arrived in 1910 (Lawrence Bruce) and in 1915 (Oswald Hope) to start their postgraduate careers. Both went on to make fundamental contributions to transfusion practice in the management of battlefield casualties in Europe between 1915 and 1918, which significantly advanced the clinical applications of transfusion medicine. The coincidence of surname has led to some confusion as to their respective contributions. The contribution of Oswald H. Robertson (“the American Robertson”) has been

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