Blood transfusion service (1939-1940)

The process of collecting donor blood, the patient's face.

Blood is poured into test tubes.

A nurse places bottles of donor blood into a container and walks away with the container in her hands.

Placing the container in the blood bank.

Patients in the blood transfusion room, preparing another patient for the procedure.

Cards of patients who are indicated for a blood transfusion.

The process of testing donor blood samples in the lab.

Laboratory staff at work.

Female British Army medics count and pack vials of blood into containers.

An airplane propeller rotates.

Containers of blood are loaded onto an airplane.

A British naval air defense crew at a gun during combat duty.

Providing assistance to wounded British paratroopers after landing and fighting on a sandy beach, transfusing blood to one of the wounded on the spot.

Medics carry stretchers with the wounded.

Providing assistance to one of the wounded.

Blood transfusion in field conditions, using improvised means, the faces of medical instructors and a medical officer.

Blood typing procedures (animation).

Street view in Talford.

The head physician of the blood transfusion center speaks on the telephone.

Transfusion procedure for patients with donor blood of certain types (animation).

The chart of the emergence of blood transfusion centers in England from 1921 to 1938 (animation).

Documents and cards of patients from different countries in need of blood transfusion.

Transfusion of donor blood from a donor to a patient in a hospital ward.

A doctor in a gauze bandage, a patient in a bed.

A manual blood transfusion apparatus, the apparatus in action.

Measuring a patient's blood pressure during a transfusion of donor blood.

The tonometer shows an increase in pressure to normal values.

The patient comes to, opens her eyes.

Moscow on the map.

Portrait of Stalin.

Laboratory staff of the Blood Transfusion Institute conduct research.

Laboratory equipment.

Cover of the magazine "Soviet Medicine".

Preparing a patient for surgery with a blood transfusion.

Carrying out disinfection measures.

The face of a surgical nurse.

A doctor makes an incision in a patient's neck.

An advertisement for those willing to donate blood at the beginning of World War II, in England, in 1939. Passersby stop and read the advertisements.

The text of one of the advertisements for donating blood.

Determining the state of the blood coagulation system by piercing the earlobe of workers on a factory floor, without interrupting production or work.

A blood transfusion service vehicle arrives in a rural area.

Containers and empty tanks are unloaded from the vehicle.

A nurse approaches a local resident collecting water from a pump.

Vienna on a map of Europe.

Determining blood types using special equipment.

A doctor looks through the eyepiece of a microscope.

A diagram of an experiment to determine blood type in 1901 (animation).

Nurses care for a patient lying on a bed during a blood transfusion procedure.

Blood type testing in a laboratory.

A doctor records the test results.

Laboratory tests to reduce the risk of clotting in transfused donor blood.

Diagram of blood cell movement and blood clotting (animation).

A doctor in a lab with a test tube filled with blood.

The process of testing donor blood clotting, a flask containing a coagulation stabilizer.

Adding the coagulation stabilizer to the test tube.