Blood Transfusion in Clinical Practice

Blood transfusions form an integral part of clinical (medical and surgical) practice worldwide. The first well-documented blood transfusion experiment was carried out by the physician Richard Lower (who transfused blood from the cervical artery of a dog into the jugular vein of another dog) in 1667 in Oxford. The earliest experiments of transfusions in human beings were reported from Paris in the same year. Since then