Frederic Duran i Jordà was a Catalan medical doctor and a pioneer in hematology and hemotherapy. He created the first transfusion service in the world in Barcelona in 1936 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Previously there were blood banks, where donated blood was stored waiting to be transfused. Dr.
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Frederic Duran i Jordà was a Catalan medical doctor and a pioneer in hematology and hemotherapy. He created the first transfusion service in the world in Barcelona in 1936 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Previously there were blood banks, where donated blood was stored waiting to be transfused. Dr. Duran i Jordà created a methodology that would serve to collect blood donations to be transfused elsewhere, in this case the front lines of the Spanish Civil War. This method was subsequently applied in World War II.
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