Luis Agote, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Luis Agote

Physician and researcher

Date of Birth: 22-Sep-1868

Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Date of Death: 12-Nov-1954

Profession: physician, politician

Nationality: Argentina

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Luis Agote (September 22, 1868 – November 12, 1954) was an Argentine physician and researcher.
He was the first to perform a non-direct blood transfusion using sodium citrate as an anticoagulant.
The procedure took place in Rawson hospital in the city of Buenos Aires on November 9, 1914.
Agote was the first to perform this procedure in the Americas.
Agote worked independently and separately from the Belgian surgeon Albert Hustin, who discovered that sodium citrate in tolerable quantities could anticoagulate blood for transfusion on March 27, 1914.