History: Blood Transfusions In Canada
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History has played a significant role in our daily lives and how through the unpleasant wars that bring death, one would take for granted the good can come out of it. The advancements in technology for WW1 was worth all the lives lost by the brave canadian soldiers which, in turn, was the reason for advances in technologies people use to this day and has impacted Canada significantly. Within the list of several inventions, one of the biggest ones that impacted our society is blood transfusions, which has saved many lives in Canada. Along with this, Canada was introduced with portable x-rays which provided medics a better way to help save people who have been harmed or injured whether in battle in WWI or in a car crash in the present day. …show more content…
During the first world war, blood transfusions were developed to help save lives of soldiers through the process of taking blood from a donor and relocating it into a soldier, sometimes for several different reasons, but mostly for when there was extreme amounts of blood lost. Found in the book, Blood Transfusions, it is said, a transfusion, in addition to replacing some of the blood that has been lost, tends to improve the patient's resistance to microorganisms, and to shorten the coagulation time of the blood. Recurrence of the haemorrhage is therefore discouraged on the whole, and in many cases a series of transfusions for recurrent haemorrhages has saved a patient's life when the prognosis had seemed to be almost hopeless. (Keynes …show more content…
It would save the life of a soldier by reducing the time it takes for blood to clot, therefore stopping the flow of blood that would leave the soldier’s body. Now while this helped save lives during WW1, it continued to affect us to this day. Blood transfusions were not only useful for WW1, but all the way to the present, saving even more people through more efficient and better practices. According to government statistics, “around 4.5 million americans alone would die each year without life saving blood transfusions”. This statistic helps show how blood transfusions, which was originally developed only in the thought that it would be used in the war, helped save lives afterhand. It reveals how the advancements of technology were created through the tragedies of brave canadian soldiers in WW1. With the comprehension of how a blood transfusion, an advancement in technology, was inspired due to the lost of soldiers in the battlefield and aided the lives of the present, it can help one understand how this technology impacted
History has played a significant role in our daily lives and how through the unpleasant wars that bring death, one would take for granted the good can come out of it. The advancements in technology for WW1 was worth all the lives lost by the brave canadian soldiers which, in turn, was the reason for advances in technologies people use to this day and has impacted Canada significantly. Within the list of several inventions, one of the biggest ones that impacted our society is blood transfusions, which has saved many lives in Canada. Along with this, Canada was introduced with portable x-rays which provided medics a better way to help save people who have been harmed or injured whether in battle in WWI or in a car crash in the present day. …show more content…
During the first world war, blood transfusions were developed to help save lives of soldiers through the process of taking blood from a donor and relocating it into a soldier, sometimes for several different reasons, but mostly for when there was extreme amounts of blood lost. Found in the book, Blood Transfusions, it is said, a transfusion, in addition to replacing some of the blood that has been lost, tends to improve the patient's resistance to microorganisms, and to shorten the coagulation time of the blood. Recurrence of the haemorrhage is therefore discouraged on the whole, and in many cases a series of transfusions for recurrent haemorrhages has saved a patient's life when the prognosis had seemed to be almost hopeless. (Keynes …show more content…
It would save the life of a soldier by reducing the time it takes for blood to clot, therefore stopping the flow of blood that would leave the soldier’s body. Now while this helped save lives during WW1, it continued to affect us to this day. Blood transfusions were not only useful for WW1, but all the way to the present, saving even more people through more efficient and better practices. According to government statistics, “around 4.5 million americans alone would die each year without life saving blood transfusions”. This statistic helps show how blood transfusions, which was originally developed only in the thought that it would be used in the war, helped save lives afterhand. It reveals how the advancements of technology were created through the tragedies of brave canadian soldiers in WW1. With the comprehension of how a blood transfusion, an advancement in technology, was inspired due to the lost of soldiers in the battlefield and aided the lives of the present, it can help one understand how this technology impacted