COLLECTION AND STORAGE OF BLOOD

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 4, 2002
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 20, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Rumania
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
Collection and Storage of Blood
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
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20 March 1953
1. There was a military blood collection center (Centrul T~Iilitar de Colectare a
S angelut) in Bucharest. It was operated by lot Lieutenant Eugen Jercan.. The
center regularly accepted 20 or 30 donors per day three times per week, The
blood thus obtained was classified according to group and Rh factor. All
donors were civilians who were paid a certain sum for every 250 ml. donated,
which was the usual amount obtained from each donor. Payment was made in
cash and no extra food rations were given. Donors were required to wait one
to two months between donations.
The center was in a two-story building which had two laboratories for blood
checking. Blood and plasma were kept under refrigeration here in special tubes,
each with a capacity of about 250 cc., which was about the average amount of
blood transfused into a patient at one time. Only whole blood or liquid
plasma was used for transfusions. The blood storage ialethod was not very
efficient; consequently there was much spoilage. More whole blood was pre-
served than plasma. There was no domestic dried plasma in Rumania. I have
never seen Soviet plasma supplies in Rumania. I have, ho ver, seen American
dried plasma in Bucharest.
The military blood collection center supplied military units in Bucharest
only. Military forces outside that city had to obtain blood in civilian
hospitals, usually by direct transfusion.,
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Cluj had a civilian blood collection center. In ear]y 1952, I was one
of a group of Army physicians who were asked to attend a three-day conference
at this collection center on the newest methods of blood transfusion. Collection
methods at the Center were described at this conference. There was no
mention of methods of blood administration to be used at the front in wartime.
I know nothing of synthetic plasma extenders. Nor do I know anything about
flMacrodexH or ' Periston". I feel, however, that these substances were
probably known at the Cluj Blood Collection Center., although they were certainly
not used there. I?do not believe that the Soviets used animal blood as a
raw material for plasma extenders. They were reportedly collecting placenta
blood in the USSR for use in blood transfusion. I know of no campaign under
way in the USSR for the storage of blood,
riHaemosistantr and "Plasmochin" were both used for haemostasis in -Rumania.
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