What is the History of Blood Banks?

A blood bank is a bank of blood or blood components,(AABB) was formed to "promote common goals
gathered as a result of blood donations, stored andamong Blood banking facilities and the American Blood
preserved for later use in blood transfusions. "Historydonating public." Then in 1950 Carl Walter and W.P.
of Blood Banks" by 1901 Karl Landsteiner, an AustrianMurphy, Jr., introduced the plastic bag for blood
physician, whom we see as the most importantcollection. On its own this does not seem like any big
individual in the field of human blood, categorized thething at all but by the simple act of replacing breakable
first three human Blood groups A, B and O.glass bottles with durable plastic bags allowed for the
Without this discovery and the subsequent research,evolution of a collection system capable of safe and
there would be no blood banking as we know it today.easy preparation of multiple blood components from a
1936 Bernard Fantus, the then director of therapeuticssingle unit of Whole Blood.
at the Cook County Hospital in Chicago, establishedSo in 1979 An anticoagulant preservative, CPDA-1 was
the first Blood bank in the United States thus creating anow introduced. It decreased wastage from expiration
hospital laboratory that can preserve and store donorand facilitated resource sharing among blood banks.
Bloods. In 1940 Dr Charles Drew, a graduate of McGillNewer solutions contain adenine and extend the shelf
University Medical School in Montreal, researched andlife of red cells to 42 days. The need for blood donors
found a technique for the long-term preservation ofis a never ending gift we can freely give our fellow
Blood plasma. This all brought us to what follows.man so if you are not a regular donor seriously look at
During 1947 The American Association of Blood Banksthis. It may be you who needs the blood one day.