Smolensk blood transfusion station during the Great Patriotic War

Abstract

The article is devoted to the establishment of the Smolensk Regional Blood Transfusion Station, which during World War II was managed by A.E.Kiselev and became the first mobile transfusion combat unit that served as a model for the mobile stations on other fronts. The name A.E.Kiselev linked these important changes in transfusion as a transition from the transfusion of whole blood transfusion of its individual components, cryopreservation of blood.