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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.
1665. The first recorded successful blood transfusion occurs in England: Physician Richard Lower keeps dog alive by transfusing blood from other dogs. 1667. Jean-Baptiste Denis in France and Richard Lower and Edmund King in England separately report successful transfusions from sheep to humans. The 1800s. 1818.
16 gru 2013 · Throughout history, blood has been embedded with powerful and paradoxical connotations. In the last decades, a more rational conception based on scientific knowledge has emerged, portraying blood as a “disenchanted” and utilitarian object, hence more apt for donation between strangers.
Situating blood transfusion within the medical world of 17 th-century France provides insight into the social milieus that shaped learned physi- cians beliefs about the human body.
The International Federation of Blood Donor Organizations (abbreviated IFBDO in English, and FIODS in French and Spanish) is the international organization representing the voluntary, anonymous and non-remunerated blood donors.. The main stated aim of IFBDO is reaching self-sufficiency of the member states in blood and blood components from voluntary, anonymous and non-remunerated blood donors ...
Voluntary and unpaid donations, high quality blood products self-sufficiency, as well as patient and donor safety are the principles governing blood transfusion in France and enforced as such by French law and regulations.
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.
