Treatment of acute aniline and CO poisoning with blood transfusion

Abstract

Blood transfusion as a therapeutic method is currently used in many areas of human pathology. Having taken its due place in the treatment of acute and chronic blood loss, blood transfusion has recently been used with success in the treatment of patients with acute and chronic intoxication. The latter is of particular importance, since the development of the chemical industry in our country and the tasks in connection with the protection of the health of workers in industrial enterprises highlight the method of treatment by blood transfusion of acute (and chronic) intoxications associated with various kinds of chemical hazards. In particular, acute poisoning with aniline and CO in severe cases is an extremely serious condition and all the therapeutic agents at our disposal (oxygen, strychnine, atropine, camphor, codeine, lobelia, etc.) are of little effect in the treatment of such patients, therefore it is quite understandable that the description of even individual cases of acute severe poisoning with aniline and CO, treated with a blood transfusion with a positive result, is of interest not only from the point of view of the accumulation of factual material, but is aimed at promoting therapeutic blood transfusion in these cases, as a method that gives a quick and correct therapeutic the effect.