RECENT SOVIET WORK ON PRESERVATION OF BLOOD

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 11, 2011
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: September 22, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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RECENT SOVIET WORK ON PRESERVATION OF BLOOD
(Comment: The following is a translation of excerpts from a re-
port by Prof Ye. S. Drachinskaya entitled "Minutes of Meetings of
the Surgical Society imeni N. I. Pirogov," which appeared in Vestnik
Khirur ii imeni I. I. Grekova, Vol 75, No 4, Moscow, May 1955, pages
1 -15 .
At the 1138th meeting of the Surgical Society imeni N. I. Pirogov, held on
10 November 1954, A. D. Belyakov presented a report on preserved blood which is
stable at low temperatures. According to Belyakov, he has developed a method
which makes it possible to keep the preserved blood at a temperature of -12? to
-16?C for 70 days. The blood does not freeze, but remains liquid. Certain
sugars and alcohols to which sinkol has been added are used as preservatives.
The blood which has been made resistant to the effects of low temperatures
stands fluctuations from room temperature to -16?C. In the blood thus stabi-
lized hemoglobin is preserved better than in ordinary preserved blood. When
the new type of preserved blood had been used clinically, a reduced number of
adverse reactions was observed.
A. Ye. Kiselev presented a report in which he described his method of the
two-stage preservation of blood. In this method the fiat stage consists of
the production of a preservative solution which is filled into sterile flasks.
The first stage is carried out at large central institutions of the blood dis-
tribution service (institutes of blood transfusion and large blood transfusion
stations). The second stage, which consists of obtaining blood from donors and
combining it with the preservative solution that has been supplied from the
central institutions, is carried out at medical institutions and remote blood
transfusion posts. The preservative solutions used hitherto are unsuitable
for the two-stage preservation of blood, because they develop a turbidity on
being stored for a long time. For that reason work has been done on the devel-
opment of special preservatives, particularly of dry preservative media. The
method of the preservation of blood in two stages will make it possible to carry
out blood transfusions in the most remote regions of the USSR. In addition to
the work described, the possibility of applying a new method of the stabillzr-
tion of blood with the aid of ion-exchange resins has been investigated.
In the discussion of the reports which followed, A. N. Berkutov stated
that the two-stage method of blood preservation was first used by A. Ye. Kiselev
during World War II. At that time the preserved blood was often faulty be-
cause the preservatives were not prepared properly, a state of affairs which
frequently led to difficulties under field conditions. The method of the two-
stage preservation of blood completely eliminates the difficulties encountered
in connection with the preservation of blood under field conditions in wartime.
A. N. Filatov stated that the two-stage method developed by Kiselev is
also of great significance for peace-time applications, particularly at small
hospitals where blood transfusions are not carried out every day and prolonged
storage of ordinary preserved brood would lead to its spoilage. Furthermore,
Kiselev's method elimates danger that the blood may spoil in transportation.
In connection with the work which is being done on artificially induced hypo-
thermia, it will be possible to use blood which has been especially cooled and
which is injected directly into the carotid artery. This possibility has
already been checked experimentally.
N. G. Kartashevskiy said that several hundred flasks of the preservative
to be used in the two-stage procedure were sent to remote points of the USSR.
The preservative was stored up to 6 months. The blood which had been combined
with the preservative remained sterile for 30 days. The frequency of reactions
after transfusion of this blood amounted to only 2.3%. After 51 transfusions
of cold-resistant blood stored up to 60 days, not a single reaction was observed.
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