Albert Hustin (1882 to 1967) was a Belgian medical doctor, born in Ethe and died in Uccle, in Brussels. He is recorded as the first person to successfully practice non-direct blood transfusions with sodium citrate used as an anticoagulant, in 1914. Adding sodium citrate to donated blood preserved it and stopped it from clotting. The Argentine researcher Luis Agote is named as the second to do so, and like Hustin he added sodium citrate to the blood. As with many medical firsts, priority is shared between researchers, and this entry follows the short Wikipedia lead, which gives no further biography.
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Albert Hustin (1882-1967) was a Belgian medical doctor.
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The Belgian doctor Albert Hustin performed the first non-direct transfusion on March 27, 1914, though this involved a diluted solution of blood.
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