Isn't it about time we learned how to use blood transfusion in patients with ischemic heart disease?

摘要

The first successful human-to-human blood transfusion was performed in the 1820s by British obstetrician James Blundell to treat a woman with post-partum hemorrhage (1). Although there had been more than 200 years of research into blood, relatively little was known at that time, and the identification of blood groups by Landsteiner was still several decades away. Animal-to-human blood transfusion had been attempted, but the failure of these experiments suspended any significant progress in the field for almost 150 years. In 1816, John Henry Leacock established the importance of species compatibility for successful transfusion (2). Blundell followed Leacock's work, and when faced with a patient who was exsanguinating, he extracted blood from the patient's husband and transfused it, saving the woman's life.