Blood use in war and disaster: lessons from the past century

From the Department of Pathology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland; and The Blood Care Foundation, Winchfield, Hampshire, UK. Address correspondence to: John R. Hess, MD, MPH, Blood Bank, N2W50a, University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 South Greene Street, Baltimore, MD 20817; e-mail: jhess@umm.edu. Received for publication July 17, 2003; accepted July 21, 2003. TRANSFUSION 2003;43:1622-1633. R E V I E W

[1]  L. Robertson.  FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON THE RESULTS OF BLOOD TRANSFUSION IN WAR SURGERY, With Special Reference to the Results in Primary Haemorrhage , 1917, British medical journal.

[2]  G. Moss,et al.  Clinical experience with the use of frozen blood in combat casualties. , 1968, The New England journal of medicine.

[3]  R. I. Lee.  A SIMPLE AND RAPID METHOD FOR THE SELECTION OF SUITABLE DONORS FOR TRANSFUSION BY THE DETERMINATION OF BLOOD GROUPS , 1917, British medical journal.

[4]  A. D'sa.  Twenty five years of vascular trauma in Northern Ireland. , 1995 .

[5]  O. H. Robertson.  A METHOD OF CITRATED BLOOD TRANSFUSION , 1918, British medical journal.

[6]  J. A. Strong,et al.  Treatment of Paget's Disease of Bone with Synthetic Salmon Calcitonin , 1974, British medical journal.

[7]  G. Crile.  I. The Technique of Direct Transfusion of Blood. , 1907, Annals of surgery.

[8]  N. Coni.  Medicine and the Spanish Civil War. , 2002, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.

[9]  R. d'Amours.  Anesthesia and Perioperative Care of the Combat Casualty , 1997, Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine.

[10]  P. Schmidt.  Blood and disaster--supply and demand. , 2002, The New England journal of medicine.

[11]  R. Coupland,et al.  Transfusion requirements for the management of war injured: the experience of the International Committee of the Red Cross. , 1992, British journal of anaesthesia.

[12]  S. Neel.  Medical support of the U.S. Army in Vietnam, 1965-1970 , 1973 .

[13]  J. Turner,et al.  THE PRESERVATION OF LIVING RED BLOOD CELLS IN VITRO : I. METHODS OF PRESERVATION. , 1916, The Journal of experimental medicine.

[14]  Mollison,et al.  THE INTRODUCTION OF CITRATE AS AN ANTICOAGULANT FOR TRANSFUSION AND OF GLUCOSE AS A RED CELL PRESERVATIVE , 2000, British journal of haematology.

[15]  Penetrating missile injuries in the Gulf war 1991 , 1991 .

[16]  B. Boulanger,et al.  Changes in red cell transfusion practice among adult trauma victims. , 1997, The Journal of trauma.

[17]  M. Stewart,et al.  Penetrating Missile Injuries in the Gulf War 1991 , 1991, The British journal of surgery.

[18]  W LUTZEYER,et al.  [Blood transfusion]. , 1960, Blut.

[19]  A. Barros D'Sa.  Twenty five years of vascular trauma in Northern Ireland , 1995, BMJ.

[20]  J. Turner,et al.  THE PRESERVATION OF LIVING RED BLOOD CELLS IN VITRO , 1916, The Journal of experimental medicine.

[21]  E. Pierce.  Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce , 1999 .

[22]  D. Hermoni,et al.  Blood transfusion therapy in the rear hospital during the Yom Kippur War (October 1973). , 1977, Military medicine.

[23]  L. Robertson,et al.  FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON THE RESULTS OF BLOOD TRANSFUSION IN WAR SURGERY: WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE RESULTS IN PRIMARY HEMORRHAGE , 1918, Annals of surgery.

[24]  T. Greenwalt,et al.  American Association of Blood Banks , 1959 .

[25]  D. B. Kendrick,et al.  Blood Program in World War II , 1965 .