Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-29
Navy Expert Halls
Blood Donor Job
I0f Red Cross

Capt. Lloyd r. Newhouser, M. G.
the Navy's outstanding whole blooc
and plasma expert, last night made
public acknowledgment of the
"superlative job" the American Rec
Cross has done in collecting 100000
blood donations for the armed serv-
ices.
THE Medical Corps of the Army
and Navy will be grateful to the
American Red Cross Blood Donor
Service for years to come" he TOLD
distinguished medical audience al
Georgetown University.
For his work in building up the
Nays program of blood substitutes
while with the Naval Medical
School, Bethesda, Md, Capt. New
houser had been selected as the
1945 Kober Foundation lecturer by
the Association of Military Surgeons
of the United States. In delivering
the lecture under the auspices OF
Georgetown University, he detailed
the important role that these Red
Cross donations of blood has played
in saving the lives of our fighting
men.
Presented $500 Check.
During the ceremony in CASTOR
Hall the Very Rev. Lawrence c.
German, S. j., Georgetown presi-
dent, presented the distinguished
naval medical scientist with the
Kober certificate and the founda-
tons check for $500 in acknowl-
edgement of his contributions to
war medicine.
approximately $4,000 pints OF
whole blood preserved by a new
solution was rushed to Two Jima
from Guam for use in treating Ma
rine casualties of that battle, Capt
Newhouser disclosed.
That was possible, he explained
because the great distances of the
Pacific presented such a logistics
problem, that medical science devel-
oped what is known as the ACD
solution, making it now possible tC
preserve whole blood for 81 days.
THE blood collected on the West
Coast usually arrives at the Navy
Whole Blood Distribution Center ir
the Mariannas Islands in less thar
two days." Capt. Newhouser said
Therefore, one has almost three
weeks in the Western Pacific dur
ing which the blood can be distrib-
uted to and used by Army and Navy
medical installations
s14,000 Pints Sent to Two.
OF the $4,000 pints sent to I've
Jima, about 5000 pints were admin
istered on the beaches and in fox
holes. The remainder was used fol
the treatment of casualties on hos
pital ships and in hospitals in the
|Mariannas Islands to which Marine
casualties were taken.
1T consequently is not difficult to
understand the reasons behind the
enthusiasm of the medical officers
in the field and af1oat for the whole
blood program" he said.
Recently detached from the Naval
Medical School, Capt. Newhouser
has been assigned as senior medical
officer of the Nays latest hospital
ship, the USS Consolation.
He paid high tribute to the
pioneer work of the District of Co.
lumbia Red Cross Chapter for its
cooperation with the Navy in the
early days of the blood plasma cam
paign before Pearl Harbor.
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"In this preparation we asked the
District of Columbia Red Cross to
enroll volunteer blood donors for
u.s." he explained. 1.-THE success OF
this program, in large part, prompted
the Surgeons General of the Army
and Navy, in the middle of 1941
to request the American Red Cross
to open blood donor centers on a
Nation wide scale"
Capt. Newhouser said, to date
more than $4,000 pints of blood pre-
served in ACD solution have been
shipped to the Pacific without the
loss of a single bottle through break
age or failure to maintain proper
refrigeration.
He predicted widespread use of
blood substitutes in even the smaller
hospitals in this country after the
war. This program also should elm
mate, he said, the professional blood
donor. It should be feasible for a
community to manage a whole blood
and plasma program with Federal
State or municipal support, he con-
tended, or through volunteer blood