Transfusion Therapy

Abstract
THE subjects of blood and its derivatives, blood grouping, blood banking and blood transfusion were well reviewed in this journal in 1948 by Gibson1 and in 1951 by Soutter, Allen and Emerson.2 The present review will discuss transfusion therapy as it presents itself to today's clinician, to whom the transfusion of whole blood and its components has become part of the daily treatment of patients. The vast improvement of technics in blood collection and storage, combined with constantly increasing knowledge in the field of blood-group immunology, has made it possible to operate blood-transfusion services at a level of safety that . . .