BLOOD TRANSFUSION
AN AUSTRALIAN SERVICE. About 25 per cent of soldiers receiving serious wounds require blood transfusions, and consequently adequate stocks of blood are of vital importance. Australia's efforts to meet this need have been highly satisfactory. and there are reported to be adequate stocks available overseas in “blood banks" and in the form of wet serus. Wet sorus is now being made by the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories from blood given by the Red Cross Emergency Blood Transfusion Service of more than 2000 members. Leading pathologists have been engaged to prepare for the manufacture of dry serus. and it is hoped that a plant will shortly be in operation. The use of serus is almost as satisfactory as whole blood. It has the advantage of being more easy to transport and of not having to be grouped, and it can be stored for months at room temperature. Whole blood must be stored at the low temperature of from 2 to 4 degrees Centigrade, and even then if will not keep longer than three weeks. It has also to be grouped with scrupulous care. Dry serus is lighter and keeps even better than wet serus. Before it is used it must be reconstituted with specially distilled water.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 October 1940, Page 3
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206BLOOD TRANSFUSION Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 October 1940, Page 3
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