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J. MARION SUTHERLAND, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1939;30(6):876-900.

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The part of the symposium which the president of the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society assigned to me deals with the use of transfusions of blood in the care of the patient after operations for sepsis of otitic origin. As a procedure of biologic therapy, the transfusion of normal or of immune blood plays an important part in both the prophylaxis and the treatment of surgical sepsis. But a rational evaluation of the various technics of blood grouping and methods of blood transfusion often presents serious difficulties to the laboratory worker as well as to the clinician. Experimental evidence offers only elementary aid in clarifying the problems, since septicemia in the animal varies considerably from that in man and biologic reactions are extremely difficult to duplicate in vitro.

The growing demand for closer association of scientific research and experience in the sickroom—for "confirming practical physiologic facts from controlled observations . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Read as part of a Symposium on Care of the Patient After Operations for Sepsis of Otitic Origin at the Forty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society, Inc., Chicago, May 9, 1939.

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