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Show Total Transfusion Saves Mother's Life Lost So Much Blood of Her Type Supply Ran Out. SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. A complete com-plete change of blood by transfusion was credited by physicians with saving the life of a 20-year-old mother. In .childbirth she lost much more of her negative RH type blood than could be replaced from the hospi-i hospi-i tal's limited supply. 1 The case, described by Dr. Mary P. Hunter, chief pathologist at Springfield City hospital, began last April 21 after a Caesarian operation j for Mrs. Florence McConnehea. When hemorrhages followed and the hospital's limited supply of negative neg-ative RH blood quickly was exhausted. ex-hausted. Dr. H. B. Elliott and Dr. Noama Green decided to use the common but opposite positive RH blood for transfusion. Introducing four pints at a time through arm and leg veins, the doctors doc-tors gave the patient 18 pints during a four-hour period. The normal blood content is 11 pints. Another four pints were given Mrs. McConnehea during the night. After two weeks, the patient's body resumed production of its natural nat-ural negative RH blood, destroying the positive type and ca'ising her to become jaundiced and in danger of death from uremia. Six tubes which alternately fed and flushed the system were inserted in-serted to carry off poisonous and destroyed positive blood cells until the uremia threat decreased. Two weeks later Mrs. McConnehea McConne-hea was dismissed from the hospital. hos-pital. Dr. Hunter said full facts of the case would be reported to the American Medical Journal after the patient's convalescence had been observed sufficiently. The patient's son, Donald, described de-scribed by Dr. Hunter as a "fine, strapping young man," weighed 8 pounds, 7 ounces at birth. The baby's blood type has not yet been determined, she added. 1 |