The Creation of the *Blood Bank*

  • April 21, 2021
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 CST
  • Zoom
  • Julie Huynh, jhuyhn@luc.edu
  • Free
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    Not open to the public.
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    The Medical Laboratory Science program presents the Creation of the Blood Bank featuring Alan Hoffstadter, MT (ASCP), SBB

    Via Zoom
    Wednesday, February 21; 1-2 p.m. (Central time)

    Eighty-five years ago, the transfusion of blood was rare, dangerous, and labor-intensive. But it could be the *holy grail* of medical treatment if carried out successfully, and medical practitioners had been attempting just that for 400 of the preceding years. In 1937, something happened to dramatically change the world of medicine, and it happened in Chicago...