Transfusion Medicine offers a concise, clinically focused and practical approach to this important area of medicine.
This well-known handbook presents the experience of a world leader in the field of blood banking and transfusion therapy. Transfusion Medicine offers complete guidance on the full range of topics from donor recruitment, blood collection and storage, to testing and transfusing blood components, complications and transmissible diseases, as well as cellular engineering, therapeutic apheresis, and the role of hematopoietic growth factors.
This third edition includes updated information on a number of areas including:
- Current debate on clinical effects of stored red blood cells
- Emerging infectious diseases and impact on blood safety
- New concepts of massive transfusion
- World blood supply
- Platelet transfusion
- Pathogen inactivation
Transfusion Medicine will be valuable to all those working in the field of blood banking and transfusion. It is a good introduction to transfusion for hematology or oncology fellows and technologists specialising in blood banking.
Content:
Chapter 1 History (pages 1โ12):
Chapter 2 The Blood Supply (pages 13โ30):
Chapter 3 Recruitment of Blood Donors (pages 31โ42):
Chapter 4 Blood Donor Medical Assessment and Blood Collection (pages 43โ67):
Chapter 5 Preparation, Storage, and Characteristics of Blood Components and Plasma Derivatives (pages 68โ99):
Chapter 6 Autologous Blood Donation and Transfusion (pages 100โ121):
Chapter 7 Production of Components by Apheresis (pages 122โ148):
Chapter 8 Laboratory Testing of Donated Blood (pages 149โ171):
Chapter 9 Blood Groups (pages 172โ206):
Chapter 10 Laboratory Detection of Blood Groups and Provision of Red Cells (pages 207โ237):
Chapter 11 Clinical Uses of Blood Components (pages 238โ304):
Chapter 12 Transfusion Therapy in Specific Clinical Situations (pages 305โ361):
Chapter 13 Techniques of Blood Transfusion (pages 362โ377):
Chapter 14 Complications of Transfusion (pages 378โ413):
Chapter 15 Transfusion?Transmitted Diseases (pages 414โ445):
Chapter 16 The HLA System in Transfusion Medicine and Transplantation (pages 446โ473): S. Yoon Choo
Chapter 17 Hematopoietic Growth Factors in Transfusion Medicine (pages 474โ491):
Chapter 18 Cellular Engineering for the Production of New Blood Components (pages 492โ520):
Chapter 19 Therapeutic Apheresis (pages 521โ553):
Chapter 20 Quality Programs in Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine (pages 554โ572):