Spain Bleeds : The Development of Battlefield Blood Transfusion During the Civil War

Language: English

Published by Sussex Academic Press Jun 2015, 2015

1845197178 / 9781845197179

Series: Book 5 of 11 - The Canada Blanch/Sussex Academic Studie

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Neuware - 'War is sometimes mistakenly construed as the chief impetus for medical innovation. Nevertheless, military conflict obliges the implementation of discoveries still at an experimental stage. Such was the case with the practice of blood transfusion during the Spanish Civil War, when massive demand for blood provoked immediate recourse to breakthroughs in transfusion medicine not yet integrated into standard medical practice. The Spanish Civil War marked a new era in blood transfusion medicine. Frederic Duran Jordaa and Carlos Elaosegui Sarasoles, directors, respectively, of the blood transfusion services of the Republican Army and of the insurgent forces, were innovators in the field of indirect blood transfusion with preserved blood. Not only had they to create transfusion services, almost from scratch, capable of supplying campaigning armies with blood in wartime conditions, they also had to struggle against the medical establishment and to convince their medical peers of the value (not to mention the scientific significance) of what they were doing. The Blood Transfusion Service of the Republic was a truly international effort, with medical volunteers from all over the world carrying out transfusion work in primitive and often dangerous conditions'--Provided by publishers.…

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Spain Bleeds : The Development of Battlefield Blood Transfusion During the Civil War
Author
Linda Palfreeman
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Sussex Academic Press Jun 2015
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2015
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English
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