Albert Hustin

Albert Hustin (1882–1967) was a Belgian medical doctor.

Hustin was born in Ethe and died in Uccle (Uccle Brussels – Belgium).

In 1914, he was the first person to successfully practice non-direct blood transfusions with sodium citrate used as an anticoagulant. The second one was the Argentinean researcher, Luis Agote.^[1] Like Agote, Hustin added sodium citrate to the blood to preserve it, and stop it from clotting.^[2]

References

1. "History of blood transfusion - The Institute of Biomedical Science". IBMS. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved 2016-06-14.
2. "The first successful non-direct blood transfusion is carried out". South African History Online. 16 March 2011. Retrieved 30 April 2019.