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A Complete Bibliography on Studies of Postmortem Blood

CHARLES L. MOORE, M.D.; JOHN C. PRUITT, M.D.; JESSE H. MEREDITH, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1962;85(3):364-370.

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The first experiments regarding the use of cadaver blood for transfusion purposes were performed in 1928 by Professor W. N. Shamov.⁷² Repeatedly successful treatment of hemorrhagic shock with blood taken from dog cadavers prompted Professor Shamov to communicate his results to Professor S. S. Judin of the Sklifosovsky Institute in Moscow.⁷⁴ Professor Judin used cadaver blood for human transfusion purposes beginning in 1930, and in 1937 reported on 1,000 transfusions.⁸⁷ In 1938 he reported a series of 2,000 human transfusions using cadaver blood with 5% reactions and 7 deaths due to transfusion reactions.⁸⁸ These results were similar to those reported at that time by other physicians transfusing blood from living donors.

A similar type of study on a smaller scale was conducted in Chicago in the 1930's by Dr. Leonard Charpier.²³ He transfused 30 patients with cadaver blood without undesirable reaction, but his work was . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.

Medical Officer, USPH Service, Diagnostic Research Branch, N.C.I. (Dr. Pruitt).; Special Research Fellow, USPH Service (Dr. Meredith).; From the Department of Surgery, The Bowman Gray School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Jan. 5, 1962.

Supported by a grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.

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