- Georg Haas
George Haas (April 4, 1886 - December 6, 1971) a German medical doctor was born in
Nürnberg, Germany . Haas performed the first humanhemodialysis treatment. Hass studied medicine at the Universities of München and Freiburg. He wrote hisdoctoral thesis while attending the institute of the famous pathologistLudwig Aschoff .Scientific work
Haas performed the first human hemodialysis in the history of medicine in 1924 in the town of
Giessen, Germany . The procedure lasted only 15 minutes, and hirudin served as theanticoagulant . Haas was able to develop a dialyzer consisting of U-shaped collodion tubes immersed in a dialysate bath placed in a glass cylinder. He performed severalhemodialysis procedures in uremics between 1924 and 1928, and reported for the first time the clinical results obtained. In 1928, Haas introducedheparin into thedialysis procedure. Because of lack of support by the medical community, Haas was forced to discontinue his promising work. [http://www.uniklinikum-giessen.de/med3/history/haas/2001-Dial-Transpl.pdf DIALYSIS & TRANSPLANTATION DECEMBER 2001, Paskalev, Dobrin N., "Georg Haas (1886–1971): The Forgotten Hemodialysis Pioneer"]Quotes
“From the initial idea to the actual realization of the dialysis method, it was a very long way. I would have to say, it was the way of the Cross....”(1928) [ibid]
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