An Allied Wonder Weapon - Plasma

[@RedentSC]

within 1 minute of this video i have learned 2 new things. that Plasma can be dehydrated (amazing) and that usable mass-produced plasma was only available form 1940 onwards... brillaint

[@ThommyofThenn]

I had no idea it could be dried like that. I guess I thought they had it in those glass bottles (like the ones you see in MASH) or ampules (now that i think about it a bit more, that size would be nowhere near enough to be useful) Just don't mistake it for the powdered eggs or milk!

[@VikingTeddy]

War really has given us incredible inventions. I wish the same amount of funding would be afforded scientists during peace time.

[@rebelboi88]

And just think. This was just a handful of DECADES after "huh. Sounds like you have ghosts in your blood, you should do cocaine about it." Was a "standard practice."

[@ThommyofThenn]

@@rebelboi88 Like Sherlock? I love how even LSD was totally fine for a while

[@rebelboi88]

@@ThommyofThenn and Heroin. You can't cough if we turn off your diaphragm.

[@paleoph6168]

"Phased plasma rifle in 40-watt range." "Hey, wrong plasma, pal."

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

lol I very much appreciate such comments

[@WhatIsSanity]

Yeah I'll show you plasma, buddy! Bites tongue* have at thee, tin man!

[@shaynewheeler9249]

WW2 German veteran

[@shaynewheeler9249]

WW2 German veteran

[@shaynewheeler9249]

😢😢😢😢😢

[@Yostuba]

While reading the Patton papers two weeks ago. General Patton brought up plasma many times everytime a hospital was spoken about, as if it was something magical and one of the things winning the war. It really was the elixir of life. Medical tech during WWII was insane how far it progressed in such a short amount of time.

[@shaynewheeler9249]

La Palma

[@eelislummaa5383]

Yes, while ww2 was hell in may ways, it really helped us develop a huge amount of both good and bad technology in a short span of time, same with the cold war. stuff that probably would have taken decades to be properly developed had there been no war

[@Chiller11]

Great video. I’m a retired surgeon who’s done my share of trauma surgery, road accidents, gunshot wounds etc. most important is to replace volume which can initially be done with crystalloids or saline like solutions but if the patients have lost a great deal of blood whole blood may be necessary because it replaces RBC’s as well. If shock is prolonged or the patient continues to lose protein, like burn patients, a colloid like fresh frozen plasma is useful. Plasma and antibiotics saved thousands of lives in WW2. I’ve never had to resort to coconut milk thank goodness. Varicosely???

[@НиколайГорохов-у6г]

❤ спасибо что вам что вы доктор .

[@shaynewheeler9249]

😢😢😮

[@JarthenGreenmeadow]

They dont give saline in the field anymore because it increases bleeding. It isnt really a great replacement for blood.

[@shaynewheeler9249]

Blood donation 🩸😷

[@Evil_Emperor_Zurg]

​@@JarthenGreenmeadowcorrect, saline is considered the worst possible option. For some reason the Army forgot the lessons learned in WWII and used saline for everything. This culminated in soldiers being "bled clear" in the Battle of Mogadishu. Current doctrine is whole blood above all else. Citric acid transfusion kits are carried in the field. Lactated Ringers is just above saline in terms of desirability.

[@guessundheit6494]

I was expecting other differences between the allied and German methods. The allies drew blood and stored it in bottles, while the Germans still relied on direct body to body transfusion. This meant allied soldiers could donate and return back to the fight, while a healthy German donor soldier was sidelined along with an injured one.

[@bruhism173]

Idk that's fair, bro gives some blood let him rest

[@cantbanme8971]

Germany lacked the manpower to rotate troops off the line easily like that compared to the US though.

[@WhatIsSanity]

That and donations could be given in the field right where a soldier had fallen to ease shock and increase survival chances even before reaching triage.

[@mickvonbornemann3824]

The British used whole blood, the US used plasma

[@johndowe7003]

And the Japanese executed thier own wounded 😂

[@PitFriend1]

I was familiar with plasma but honestly had never heard about the dehydrated version. I did always wonder how field medics had plasma available. The more you know!

[@AlexSDU]

I'm more curious how the field medic get distilled water when sometime normal clean drinking water is in limited supply. Would they use drinking water as replacement for distilled water to liquefy the plasma?

[@bungarraoz254]

Probably boil and filter it first, maybe.@@AlexSDU

[@alin4232]

​@@AlexSDU they probably carried spare canteens just for the plasma.

[@Riflelock]

It was a "kit". You had one tube with the dry plasma. The second bottle was the sterile water. You connect the water plasma bottle together to reconstitute.

[@fort809]

@@alin4232if the water is in a canteen, then by definition it isn’t sterile

[@jacobrigby3172]

can we also appreciate how much of an advantage penicillin provided the allies?

[@ThommyofThenn]

Listening to anything about blood or getting wounded makes my skin crawl these days but this period footage is amazing! I've watched a ton of these documentary and "morale film" type things on my own time and found them endlessly fascinating. Almost like a film time capsule! Must have been a ton of fun to sift through and find the perfect footage for this. Cheers and hope you have the best holiday season possible

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Thanks, man, you too for 🎄 🎁 or whatever you choose to celebrate 🥳

[@shaynewheeler9249]

😢😢😢😢😢

[@flyingsquirrell6953]

Allied Wonderwaffen: Actually useful

[@darnit1944]

Don't forget the a-bomb, Turing's computer and radar technology too.

[@PaulRudd1941]

​@@darnit1944 the proximity fuze and penicillin were both pretty great too.

[@klown463]

Except it’s not a weapon and the KD between Germans and Americans was equal

[@flyingsquirrell6953]

@@klown463 the allies in the west had an equal casualty rate against a defensive and entrenched enemy? Damn that’s really impressive.

[@klown463]

@@flyingsquirrell6953 I mean yeah, when you consider the US was apparently using this life saving magic called plasma.

[@Jay-ln1co]

One of the things we had to learn in medic training was the content of each of the two dozen boxes a field hospital is packed in. One of the boxes contained the various IV liquids, but for the life of me I can't remember the number. Had to check if one of my manuals had it, but wasn't in any of them.

[@dude55man]

I know, US Navy side, for the role 2s there's several little fridges used to store WB and other blood products for 30 days IIRC. Granted that's outside the probably hundreds of liters of NS in both 1L and 500mL bags. As well as other various IV fluids for various things. Like calcium IIRC, as when you do a mass transfusion, you have to give the casualty calcium due to preservatives in blood bags

[@shaynewheeler9249]

WW2, medical hospital

[@shaynewheeler9249]

Hospital 🏥 WW2

[@jerrysmooth24]

Waverly Woodson deserves the MOH he saved twice as many lives as Desmond Doss on Normandy and later became a doctor and worked at NIH.

[@thekhoifish0146]

We’ve gotten the double Johnny Johnson special for Christmas lads

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

One new. One old. =)

[@Vextonomy]

Jolly johnson

[@ThommyofThenn]

JJ keeping it classy

[@thekhoifish0146]

@@Vextonomy YES

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Excellent...

[@fortawesome1974]

Wow imagine how many hundreds of thousands of lives this saved!! I'm an ex Infantry combat veteran and seeing this made me realise the extent they went to to save wounded soldiers in the field. I also know that in Vietnam (my Dad was an Australian Tunnel rat there is a book about them called "No Need For Hero's") the South Vietnamese army used coconut water straight from the nut as an IV. It didn't replace the blood but it was able to keep them alive until they got to a hospital or medic and it worked!! It was used on Australian reporter Neil Davis when he got shraped by a mortar and wounded badly. He lived to tell the tale so it obviously works. I paused and wrote this before you mentioned the coconut water. Wow, what a coincidence. Look at the records of South Vietnamese medics and you will find many men were saved using it as a stop gap to get to proper medical help!!

[@Curious359]

A key concept that we've realised in terms of IV fluid replacement is sometimes patients survive inspite of what we do not because of it.

[@andrewgreeb916]

​@@Curious359the belief that it works can make a harmful procedure help. The mind is a powerful thing.

[@srj607able]

Thank you for your service

[@amirmoezz]

This was very educational. Thank you.

[@bigblue6917]

Thanks, Johnny. An interesting departure from your usual fair and in an area not usually covered in other channels. I hope you can continue finding such gems.

[@JonSkinner1944]

Thank you, explaining plasma and blood. It’s was very interesting, especially with the background of methods making plasma. As suggestions, your next should be medical evacuation from the battlefield. From the American civil War horse drawn ambulances to the Vietnam War and helicopter dust off. And again, thank you for all your hard work and contribution!

[@mbryson2899]

My mouth is agape, Johnny. Very, very few pay attention to blood replacement, much less share their research and make a video about it. As a former hospital worker you have my truest thanks. 😊

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Thanks man I was hoping you'd appreciate this one. The research was tricky as was trying to distill it down to something everyone including myself could understand. Blood is wildly complicated.

[@mbryson2899]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq You read me very well, and I'm certain others as well! Thank you again Johnny, you never fail to deliver.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

​@@JohnnyJohnsonEsqas ex NHS staff ...we salute you...

[@TrickiVicBB71]

Really educational there Johnny. Have a happy holiday

[@fancyultrafresh3264]

This was WILDLY informative, thank you so much.

[@Mucologist]

You did a good job with a difficult subject. Good work!

[@joseaca1010]

The hardest part about plasma was capturing an alien alive to unlock the research in the XCOM laboratory

[@SpookyFraulein]

I was so hoping for a comment like this 😅

[@geordiedog1749]

One of your best videos yet, JJ. And the end pun was brilliant. I know I shouldn’t encourage you but that was a good one!

[@sisyphous5849]

I’ve been studying medicine, and having it coincide with your history videos is lovely to see. Great work!

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Thank you so much and good luck to you 👍❤️

[@shaynewheeler9249]

😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@gilschannel641]

Awesome piece on a difficult subject. Thanks Johnny

[@achiu31]

This was an interesting watch, as I'm in the blood transfusion field and did not know about the use of storing plasma in powdered "freeze-dried" form. Nowadays we keep our plasma products frozen until thawed for use, so I'm wondering what the storage costs/benefits are of powdered vs frozen. 🤔

[@hanzgetzaluger5852]

Finally, I have always wanted to know this! Thanks I freaking love your content

[@TheTrooper506]

Cool video, nice departure from weapons and vehicles. Suggest super glue for a video subject, medics used it in the vietnam war and its history goes back further to gun sight research and development during ww2.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Super glue! Very cool idea. Adding it to my list.

[@TellySavalas-or5hf]

Great intel here. John. You are the best from the YT Block,

[@Narty_Naz]

8:43 ...does this mean vampires can live by drinking coconut water alone?

[@jackshistory9378]

Really cool video, my great grandfather ran a blood bank in London during ww2 so it was great learning about what that entailed.

[@Chris-lr2qb]

Genuinely one of the most fascinating videos you've produced. I learned so much.

[@Mag_Aoidh]

Very cool Johnny!

[@mre7862]

Great video - really interesting, Jonny! I never knew any of this. Thank you.

[@michael2974]

Thanks Johnny, this was a great video, and a fascinating topic. Good luck to you.

[@Lord_winterfell]

Great vid one of your best, not to say that your other videos are bad but that was very informative about somthing that was essential for the allies and generally overlooked. I learned from you a new thing Thank you

[@pshabino]

A great topic. Whole blood was also used extensively on the battlefield in WWII. The US military learned a lot about shock treatment during the war. Unfortunately a lot of these lessons were lost in the civilian practice of trauma medicine particularly after end of the US involvement in Vietnam. From the late 70s into the 90s as our civilian trauma protocols leaned heavily on crystalloid transfusions to treat shock given their easy availability and low cost. Ultimately we’ve learned through lives lost that the oxygen carrying capacity, clotting factors and osmotic components of blood products, particularly whole blood or separate blood products transfused in a 1:1:1 ratio (platelet, fresh frozen plasma, packed red cells) are superior to crystalloid or any one component alone for patients in hemorrhagic shock.

[@ajmaloleary3553]

Yes! That was the best pun so far! Well done Johnny!

[@idaho_girl]

Super interesting video. Well done and Thanks!

[@richardglady3009]

That was a great video. Thank you for all your hard work in its creation. I love videos looking at little known, but vital bits of history…plasma, for example. Thanks.

[@timothygourley5690]

That was a great video, thank you

[@Materialist39]

This is an excellent video, keep it up Johnny. While I love the clips channel, these genuinely are fascinating video essays about often portrayed, but rarely converted, topics.

[@jgonzalez101]

Thank you for sharing this very interesting and informative video! I'm glad to know how and what type of blood products were used in WWII, and prior. This was a great watch!

[@StuartMcKenzie-me9wc]

That was really interesting and well presented. Am a former UK combat med tech and with all our cool kit these days, including whole blood, I didn’t even know this (hangs head in shame) but now I do!!! Thank you!!

[@ugarit5]

Thank you for covering this overlooked part of war,maybe youll do more similar videos in the future

[@AJBrayWrites]

That was legitimately one of the most fascinating videos I’ve ever had the pleasure of watching. Also, I was delighted to see someone finally use a clip from Passchendaele. 6.7 stars out of 5. Subscribed.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Thank you so much glad you enjoyed it 🙏

[@razeel2000]

One never stops learning. Thank you!

[@RolfYeager]

Good video as always and yes a little different from the usual videos but just as entertaining and informative

[@russellhaskell7313]

Fantastic video! keep up the great work!

[@scorcher46]

Never would've known this without your video, thanks for these amazing videos.

[@masterofrockets]

This was a fascinating episode! I look forward to more content like this!

[@einfisch3891]

Used to be a phlebotomist at a plasma center, actually never knew you could dehydrate and reconstitute it like that. Neat. We always stores ours frozen at -36C.

[@andrelagoy8968]

Love your videos man, thanks for the great work

[@Vernaux]

Starting playing more Battlefield V recently and happened across your channel in my search for WWII content. Keep up the awesome work! I love these bite-sized videos

[@shaynewheeler9249]

Ww2 food

[@MoreFormosa]

great story idea, facinating... always saw the plasma bottles on the TV show MASH but had little understanding of the how/when/why of blood vs plasma transfusions. Well done!

[@thedarknightmedic6187]

Great video. Thank you for putting in the research to make it.

[@paulwee1924dus]

Plasma very important! Most Waffen SS soldiers indeed had a blood group tattoo. Some cut these out of their arms in 1945. Himmler had none. And in the miniseries "Hitler's SS" (1985) we see a tattoo that is wrong. Instead of the blood group, the SS officer Helmut Hofmann had 2 SS runes on his upper arm, which meant his death.

[@fraserihle4847]

There’s always some random autistic waffling about something unrelated 😂😂

[@ljackson8597]

@@fraserihle4847😭😭

[@magila1]

Not that unrelated Jonny mentioned the fact that SS soldiers had their blood type tattooed on them.@@fraserihle4847

[@tmanF4]

@@fraserihle4847Bold of you to insult someone’s interest in random history… under a video about a random history 😂

[@fraserihle4847]

@@tmanF4 WW2 content is specifically riddled with random autistic boomers posting some novel of a comment that in unrelated to the video. Sorry if you feel insulted….I thought it was funny 🙄

[@parallel-knight]

That was fricking sick! Dope video man.

[@MayorMcC666]

3:36 sodium citrate is also what is used to make american cheese so smooth!

[@Propganda]

Great vid Johnny

[@BWIENS789]

Alot of good information packed in a video under 10 minutes. I learned some new stuff. You should do one on antibiotics.

[@carmenpuddinpop8642]

Very nice. Thanks, Johnny!

[@tacdad1034]

I always enjoy your videos, this was different but very interesting!

[@livelurked4103]

Great content as always!

[@traFREAK]

I legit just finished band of brothers.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

My favorite of all favorites

[@traFREAK]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq i loved it too! Kinda saddens me "old" series are looked down upon by younger generations. They are just as good if not better!

[@garfieldsmith332]

Thanks for posting this very important story in history. I never knew anything about Plasma at all. A very interesting top. And well present by you. If you do come across some more medical stories you fell need sharing, please do.

[@generalflowerhead2047]

The Advancement in Medical Technology is Often overlooked! Thanks for the Video! I learned so much.

[@TheNapalmFTW]

Johnny this is really great I love these little history bites. Please keep it up.

[@aurathedraak7909]

I also believe that penicillin was a huge major factor in this war as well. Do that video and should be more.

[@1stCallipostle]

It's often easy to forget just how important medical care is for warfighting. Can't maintain a fighting force if people are down and out with the flu or dying from wounds that should be treatable. Unless you're the USSR. Grabbing more conscripts is cheaper than fixing the ones you have in that case

[@hisdudeness8328]

That is absolutely insane that medical tech was THAT advanced almost 80 years ago. Some may say that a nuke, or as Patton like to put it, the M-1 Garand was the best battlefield implementation ever, but honestly, this absolutely revolutionary advance in medical science no doubt easily saved tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, soldiers lives.

[@allanalopez1756]

You should do more videos like this one it is very important that we all know this history ❤❤

[@tippytoes2133]

I have often wondered about this in the back of my head, great video!

[@shaynewheeler9249]

WW2 vet

[@KB-313]

Super informative Johnny, great stuff!!

[@marzuqahmed218]

Do more video's like these. People seem to forget its not just weapons that win wars.

[@watching010]

Can you also make a video of moving the dead and how the logistics are organised during and after a battlefield.

[@niagarawarrior9623]

I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for making these videos, I recently discovered you channel and have found every topic so far to be interesting, well presented, and informative.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Well thank you for leaving the kind and motivational words.

[@harrybuckner8232]

Quick added note, Whole Blood & Plasma contains Platelets & Cryoprecipitate.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

I just went with the term clotting factors to make it easier on myself and the average audience.

[@harrybuckner8232]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq no problem. I used to work for a local blood bank so I just want to update

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

I appreciate it all added info my friend and respect the work greatly 👍🙏

[@scottycooley6459]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Clotting factors doesn't mean that it will form blood clots. Coagulation is rather complicated. Different clotting factors in the plasma and serum work with platelets to form blood clots. Platelets generally get separated from the plasma before being dried. So plasma on it's own doesn't form blood clots, it will only help the remaining platelets and fibrinogen in the patients body to form clots.

[@muhammedaljerari391]

I am a Fireman and a Nursing student applying for a direct commission medical program in the Navy. I greatly enjoy this content.

[@Dubious.Bovine]

You may not usually do medical videos but you did a great job covering this one.

[@emmanueltrejo4226]

I always wondered what plasma was. Thank you

[@philo6850]

Great video, I've been a routine blood donor every eight weeks with the American Red Cross for years, a fascinating bit of history, thanks!

[@Zendria]

Keep it up Johnny. You're doing a great job. It was really interesting.

[@Stonewielder]

This was a very informative video for me. Thanks!

[@wiseguy3696]

This was a very interesting and unique topic. Greatly appreciate the research

[@mwblackbelt]

I am a Clinical Laboratory Scientist and have been a blood banker for decades. This video is excellent! I love hearing about the history of my profession.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

And I must thank you for your hard and important work 🙏

[@mwblackbelt]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq and I appreciate your research and very accurate reporting. Believe it or not, so many doctors and nurses do not understand what you explained so clearly

[@peterpellegrino]

i appreciate you covering this topic.

[@shoked99]

Learned a lot here. Great video. Very interesting stuff as usual. Thanks.

[@Tank50us]

One of the other important things of plasma and serum is that it replaces the volume lost due to blood loss. While it obviously doesn't replace blood cells, which is vital, the individual needing it is usually going to a field hospital anyway with pretty severe injuries.

[@dellawrence4323]

Awesome video Boss, very educational, I hope people appreciate the amount of research you must have done to make it.

[@attemptedunkindness3632]

If you don't normally do medical videos, I say keep doing videos you don't normally do because this was one of the good ones.

[@rep4063]

Great video, please do more like this.

[@WolfHeart98]

I’ve never gotten plasma from the mystery box before

[@Erwin_Von_Heidenheim]

Most interesting, I learned something new

[@richardcartwright2199]

great job thanks

[@Volhaas]

Very interresting johnny, Thanks for the video!

[@lorimeyers3839]

Wow, this is fascinating. Great upload.

[@Argon32]

😲👍🥰Great topic choice, very well produced, informative, thanks a ton, Johnny. (long time viewer/subscriber)

[@GamerOfLegends163]

19:14 that scene made my skin crawl with the needle in the arm while that line visibly gets yanked 😬 I know it wasn't really in the actor's arm but just the idea of that made me feel sick

[@christopherroa9781]

Im currently reading "Fighting for America" a book on Black American citizens and soldier's involvement in WW2. The book mentioned Charles Richard Drew, I'm glad to see you mentioned him in the start of the video!

[@greg_4201]

And then everybody clapped

[@RX552VBK]

Very fascinating. JJ, how about a short vid on Morphine and those syrettes they used WW2 and later. I remember the scene in Hamburber Hill when Courtney Vance's character Doc was shot and Timm Quill's Pvt. Beletsky gave him a pop in the arm (in the rain and the mud).