transfusion

That is five or six women every hour having a blood clot, a seizure, a stroke,receiving a blood transfusion,having end-organ damage such as kidney failure,

overload the kidneys, and cause organ failure.Fortunately, Denis’s patient survived the transfusion.But, after other cross-species transfusions proved fatal,

There's one way to treat jaundice,and that's what's called an exchange transfusion.So as you can imagine, that's expensive and a little bit dangerous.

this enabled one of the most important medical procedures in the world,which, of course, is the blood transfusion.And by knowing what your blood type is,

Halsted didn’t know how lucky they’d gotten.His transfusion only worked because he and his sisterhappened to have the same blood type—