Bernard Fantus
Bernard Fantus · Science & Medicine
Physician who established the first hospital blood bank.
1874, Budapest, Hungary — 1940, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Hungary · United States
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Bernard Fantus was a Hungarian-born American physician who in 1937 established the first hospital blood bank at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, coining the term "blood bank" and developing methods to store and preserve blood for transfusion. His innovation transformed emergency and surgical medicine worldwide. He was Jewish, born to a Jewish family in Budapest.
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Physician who established the first hospital blood bank.
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