Cadaveric blood transfusion is the transfusion of blood from a dead body into a living person. Vladimir Shamov of Kharkiv in the USSR reported experimental use of cadaveric blood in 1929, demonstrating it was non-toxic, and Sergei Yudin performed the first successful transfusion of this kind on March 23, 1930, presenting his first seven clinical cases to the Fourth Congress of Ukrainian Surgeons in Kharkiv that September. Despite this Soviet development the practice never became widespread, even in Russia; Bernard Fantus instead adapted the underlying idea by preserving blood from living donors, establishing the first blood bank in the United States at Cook County Hospital in Chicago in 1937.
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Who gave the first successful cadaveric blood transfusion to a patient and how was it done?
Sergei Yudin in Moscow on March 23, 1930; the donor blood was three days old.
Sergei Yudin of the Sklifosovsky Institute in Moscow gave the first successful transfusion of cadaveric blood to a living person on March 23, 1930. His patient was an engineer who had attempted suicide, and Yudin used cadaver blood that was three days old and happened to be at hand. He knew of Professor Shamov's earlier work before he tried it on a human being.
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Cadaveric blood transfusion is the transfusion of blood from a dead body to a living person.
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Russian surgeon Sergei Yudin pioneered the transfusion of cadaveric blood and performed this successfully for the first time on March 23, 1930.
In Group: Blood Transfusion and Blood Components, Introduction
Cadaveric blood transfusion is the transfusion of blood from a dead body to a living person.
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