Luis Agote

Luis Agote (1868 to 1954) was an Argentine physician and researcher. He was the first to perform a non-direct blood transfusion using sodium citrate as an anticoagulant. The procedure took place at the Rawson hospital in Buenos Aires on November 9, 1914, and it was the first of its kind in the Americas. Agote worked independently of the Belgian surgeon Albert Hustin, who had discovered on March 27, 1914 that sodium citrate in tolerable quantities could keep blood from clotting for transfusion. The two men are therefore credited with parallel work on the same technique, a classic case of a shared discovery in the history of medicine.