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8 lip 1991 · That is the question that hemophiliacs in France are hurling at doctors and government officials after it was revealed that the country’s National Center of Blood Transfusion (CNTS) had ...
Anecdotes reported here on blood transfusion and the transfusion environment, that were retrieved from French news released in the media press between the 1950s to 1980s give a view on what has been achieved since then, but also on what is at a standstill by some incapability in moving forward or in changing minds.
Abstract: Transfusion and plasma fractionation in France are closely linked to the historical reliance on voluntary unpaid blood donation that constitutes the foundation in the national system for the supply of labile blood components and stable fractionated plasma products.
Starting in the early 1980s, France saw a large number of transfusion patients become infected by blood transfusions contaminated by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the hepatitis C virus (HCV). The country sustained one of the highest rates of contaminated transfusion recipients and hemophiliacs in Europe.
9 maj 2021 · In France, blood donation is run by the Établissement Français du Sang (EFS). One of their slogans is: “one hour can save 3 lives,” and it could not be any more true! It takes about 1 hour to donate blood and the blood that is collected is separated into three main products.
22 sty 2020 · In 1665 Richard Lower kept dogs alive by transfusing blood from other dogs. 2 In 1667 French physician Jean Denys transfused nine ounces of blood from the carotid artery of a lamb into the vein of a young man.
The pioneers of blood transfusion first appeared in the 17th century, mainly in France and England, through animal experimentation, followed by some attempts in the healthy or sick. In France, the names of Dom Robert and Jean-Baptiste Denis belong to the beginning of the adventure of transfusion.
