BB History

Question 1

bathing in bull’s blood

Answer 1

Taurobolium

Question 2

term for the pit of bull’s blood

Answer 2

fossa sanguinis

Question 3

purpose of bathing in bull’s blood

Answer 3

for person’s seeking spiritual rebirth

Question 4

also bathing in blood

Answer 4

Egyptians

Question 5

purpose of bathing in blood (not bull)

Answer 5

rejuvenation of the old
resuscitation on the sick

Question 6

drinking of dead gladiator’s blood

Answer 6

Romans

Question 7

purpose of drinking of dead gladiator’s blood

Answer 7

for gaining vitality and curing epilepsy

Question 8

1st attempt of human transfusion with three donors

Answer 8

Pope Innocent VII (1492)

Question 9

1st animal to animal transfusion

Answer 9

Richard Lower (1666)

Question 10

1st sheep to animal transfusion

Answer 10

Jean Baptiste Denis (1667)

Question 11

transfusion on a post-partum hemorrhage woman

Answer 11

James Blundell (1829)

Question 12

discovery of ABO blood groups
(antigens A, B, and O)

Answer 12

Karl Landsteiner (1901)

Question 13

discovery of AB blood type
(coexistence of A and B antigens)

Answer 13

Alfred von Decastello & Adriano Sturli (1902)

Question 14

sodium phosphate

Answer 14

Braxton Hicks (1869)

Question 15

sodium citrate (unknown ratio)

Answer 15

Hustin (1914)

Question 16

sodium citrate (known ratio)

Answer 16

Lewisohn (1915)

Question 17

citrate-dextrose solution

Answer 17

Rous and Turner (1916)

Question 18

discovery of Rh blood group

Answer 18

Karl Landsteiner and Weiner (1940)

Question 19

director of the 1st American Red Cross Blood Bank

Answer 19

Dr. Charles Drew (Feb. 1941)

Question 20

where was the 1st American Red Cross Blood Bank established?

Answer 20

Presbyterian Hospital

Question 21

acid-citrate dextrose solution (ACD)

Answer 21

Loutit and Mollison (1943)

Question 22

purpose of citrate

Answer 22

anticoagulant

Question 23

purpose of dextrose

Answer 23

nourishment / food for the RBCs

Question 24

term for the increase or depletion of components due to storage for prolonged periods

Answer 24

storage lesions

Question 25

citrate-phosphate dextrose (CPD)

Answer 25

Gibson (1957)

Question 26

year when blood banking establishments were build and transfusions were normalized

Answer 26

1947

Question 27

founding of the Journal of Clinical Investigation

Answer 27

July 1947

Question 28

what was the research in the Journal of Clinical Investigation in 1947 about?

Answer 28

blood preservation

Question 29

a device for blood transfusion that uses gravity to drain the donors blood into the container

Answer 29

Blundell's Gravitator

Question 30

a device for blood transfusion that requires multiple assistance to operate

Answer 30

Edward E. Lindenmann

Question 31

a device for blood transfusion that successfully performed vein-to-vein transfusions using a specialized cannula and multiple syringes

Answer 31

Edward E. Lindenmann

Question 32

a device for blood transfusion that does not require assistance

Answer 32

Unger

Question 33

a syringe-valve device for blood transfusion

Answer 33

Unger

Question 34

order of components in Blundell's Gravitator

Answer 34

needle/cannula funnel tubing container

Question 35

two devices for the collection of capillary blood

Answer 35

Blunder's Impeller Gesellius

Question 36

a device for blood transfusion where the donor is lanced in the back

Answer 36

Gesellius

Question 37

a device for blood transfusion that uses suction cups

Answer 37

Gesellius

Question 38

enumerate the different early blood transfusion devices

Answer 38

Edward E. Lindenmann Unger Blundell's Gravitator Blundell's Impeller Aveling's Silver Cannula Gesellius