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A blood bank is a cache or bank of blood or blood components, gathered as a result of blood donation, stored and preserved for later use in blood transfusions.
An early development leading to the establishment of blood banks occurred in 1915, when Richard Lewison of Mount Sinai Hospital, New York initiated the use of sodium citrate as an anticoagulant. This discovery transformed the blood transfusion procedure from direct (vein-to-vein) to indirect. In the same year, Richard Weil demonstrated the feasibility of refrigerated storage of anticoagulated blood. The introduction of a citrate-glucose solution by Francis Peyton Rous and JR Turner two years later permitted storage of blood in containers for several days, thus opening the way for the first "blood depot" established in Britain during World War I. Oswald Hope Robertson, a medical researcher and U.S. Army officer who established the depots, is now recognized as the creator of the first blood bank.
By the mid-1930s, the Soviet Union had set up a system of at least sixty large blood centers and more than 500 subsidiary ones, all storing "canned" blood and shipping it to all corners of the country. News of the Soviet experience traveled to America, where in 1937 Bernard Fantus, director of therapeutics at the Cook County Hospital in Chicago, established the first hospital blood bank in the United States. In creating a hospital laboratory that preserved and stored donor blood, Fantus originated the term "blood bank." Within a few years, hospital and community blood banks were established across the United States.
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New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion - Organization comprises members from diverse scientific and medical backgrounds working within the areas of blood transfusion and transfusion medicine. Web site includes information on news, publications, scientific meetings, and web links to online resources devoted to transfusion medicine.
Meta Description: [ Australian & New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion (ANZSBT). ]
America's Blood Centers - National network of non-profit, independent community blood centers.
Meta Description: [ Founded in 1962, America's Blood Centers (ABC) is the international network of local, non-profit, community blood centers. These ABC members subscribe to a community-based blood banking philosophy. That means community donors know that the blood they give stays in that community first -- helping ... ]
American Association of Blood Banks - An international association of blood banks, including hospital and community blood centers, transfusion and transplantation services and individuals involved in activities related to transfusion and transplantation medicine.
Armed Services Blood Program - A joint health agency charted to monitor the implementation of blood program policies to coordinate the blood programs of the military services.
Australian Cord Blood Bank - Based in Sydney, collects and banks cord blood from voluntary donors anonymously, for use by any patients, Australian or overseas, needing a stem cell transplant.
Meta Description: [ Sydney Children's Hospital ]
Bharat Blood Bank - Blood bank in India. Provides registration, database, and contact information for donors.
Blood Bank of Alaska - Non-for-profit corporation serving 25 hospitals in Alaska. Web site provides mission statement, news, information for blood donors.
Meta Description: [ Blood Bank of Alaska, Blood Centers of Alaska ]
Blood Banks Association of Northeastern New York State - Professional organization for transfusion medicine specialists. Web site provides mission statement, news, and information about improving the safety, efficacy and proper utilization of blood products.
Meta Description: [ Blood Banks Association of New York State, Inc. (BBANYS) ]
Blood Center - Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center.
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Bloodmembers.com - Online database of voluntary blood donors who are willing to be called upon in an emergency. (Kathmandu, Nepal)
BloodNetUSA - Community blood center supplies blood products to hospitals and health care facilities throughout the State of Florida, USA.
Meta Description: [ BloodNetUSA, a not-for-profit community blood center, supplies blood products to hospitals and health care facilities throughout the Central Florida area. BloodNetUSA currently has blood bank branches located in Polk County, Hillsborough County, Pasco County and Hardee County. Bloodmobiles are ... ]
Community Blood Bank Center - A non-profit blood bank serving California's southern desert region since 1972. (Rancho Mirage, CA)
Meta Description: [ community blood bank is a non-profit blood bank serving the southern desert region of California since 1972. ]
eBloodBank.com - Web site provide information about Chiron Blood Testing products and services.
Florida Georgia Blood Alliance - Nonprofit blood center that collects, processes and distributes blood in the community.
Hendrick Meek Blood Donation Center - Blood bank and donation center located in Abilene Texas. Supplies blood to 17 local hospitals and medical facilities. Provides information about blood donation.
Meta Description: [ Hendrick Meek Blood Center - Blood Donation Center serving the Big Country area located in Abilene Texas ]
LifeShare Blood Centers Online - Provides quality blood and blood components 24 hours a day to our service hospitals so that patient needs are met in an efficient, cost-effective basis.
Meta Description: [ LifeShare Blood Centers ]
LifeSouth Community Blood Centers - A nonprofit, charitable organization providing a volunteer blood supply for patients in medical facilities in Alabama, Florida and Georgia.
Miller-Keystone Blood Center - Serves several counties in Eastern Pennsylvania, and Warren County in New Jersey. Information about donations and drives, blood facts, volunteering, and employment.
Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center - MVRBC is the sole provider of blood products to 10 hospitals in Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois.
New Zealand Blood Service - Blood bank in New Zealand. Provides organization mission statement, information for donors, contact details and collection locations.
Meta Description: [ New Zealand Blood Service provides public health services ]
Platelet City - Information for blood and platelet donors in the Hudson Valley Region of New York State. Donation sites and site hours.
Meta Description: [ Blood donor Platelet Donor and Blood Donor information for the Hudson Valley Region of New York State. Platelet Donor Sites, Hours, and information ]
Prathama Blood Center - Ahmedabad, India - Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation run a blood bank with list of products, technology and prices. (Vasna, Ahmedabad, India)
Meta Description: [ Blood components, Advance Transfusion supported by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. Are you afraid of using or donating blood? A blood bank which takes utmost care with its high standards ]
Rotary Blood Bank - Blood bank based in India.
South Texas Blood and Tissue Center - A not-for-profit center responsible for supplying blood and tissue to 80 hospitals and clinics in 43 counties. The Blood and Tissue Center has three in-bank donor locations in San Antonio and one in Victoria, Texas. The center also conducts blood drives with its mobile units at locations throughout south Texas.
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State Blood Transfusion Council - Govt. of NCT - Delhi - Stock status of blood components (whole blood, plasma, fresh frozen plasma, red dell doncentrate, platelet concentrate, cryoprecipitate, albumin). Donor can register their requirement on web site.
Stem Sciences Inc - Canadian cord blood bank. Web site provides information about umbilical cord blood banking, processing and storage. Includes registration and service fee information.
The UCSF Medical Center Blood Center - Web site provides information about blood diseases, transfusion, and blood donation. Includes treatment information for UCSF's patients, description of blood donor programs, publications, and links to other related resources.
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