Explore this concise and clinically focused approach to the field of blood banking and transfusion therapy
The Fifth Edition of Transfusion Medicine delivers a succinct, thorough, clinically focused, practical and authoritative treatment of a full range of topics in transfusion therapy. This ranges from issues with the blood supply, recruitment of both whole blood and apheresis donors, blood collection and storage, blood testing, blood safety, and transmissible diseases. This edition has been fully updated and revised to include exciting cellular therapies for cancer, transplantation of both hematopoietic cells and solid organs, infectious diseases and regenerative medicine.
The Fifth Edition includes new authors with highly relevant content that provides a solid grounding for readers in the field. The book:
Is an approachable comprehensive guide to the field of blood banking and transfusion medicine
Provides complete and timely perspective on crucial topics, including the HLA system in transfusion medicine and transplantation and quality programs in blood banking and transfusion medicine
Is extensively referenced, making it simple for readers to conduct further research on the topics of interest to them
Includes new chapters on pediatric transfusion medicine and pathogen reduction
Has an expended chapter on patient blood management
Provides extensive discussions of the clinical use of blood transfusion in a wide variety of clinical situations including recent development In the management of acute traumatic blood loss
Provides updated information about blood groups and molecular testing making inroads into clinical practice along with discussions of laboratory detection of blood groups and provision of red cells
Perfect for all those working in the field of blood banking, transfusion medicine and hematology or oncology and fellows in pathology, hematology, surgery and anesthesiology. Transfusion Medicine is a good introduction for technologists specializing in blood banking and non-medical personnel working in areas related to hematology and transfusion medicine. Transfusion Medicine will also earn a place in the libraries of practicing pathologists with responsibility for blood banks.
Contents
Preface to the fifth edition
Contributors
Chapter 1 History
Jeffrey McCullough
Chapter 2 The Blood Supply
Jeffrey McCullough
Chapter 3 Recruitment of Blood Donors
Thomas Watkins
Chapter 4 Blood Donor Medical Assessment and Blood Collection
Gary Bachawoski
Chapter 5 Preparation, Storage, and Characteristics of Blood Components and Plasma Derivatives
Alesia Kaplan
Chapter 6 Production of Components by Apheresis
Tomas Gniadek
Chapter 7 Laboratory Testing of Donated Blood
Nancy van Buren
Chapter 8 Blood Groups
Sarah Ilstrup
Chapter 9 Laboratory Detection of Blood Groups and Provision of Red Cells
Ulrike Koenigbaur
Chapter 10 Clinical Uses of Blood Components
Vincent LaRoche
Chapter 11 Transfusion Therapy in Specific Clinical Situations
James Stubbs
Chapter 12 Pediatric Transfusion Medicine
Stephanie Kinney
Chapter 13 Patient Blood Management
Jeffrey McCullough
Chapter 14 Pathogen Reduced Blood Products
Jeffrey McCullough
Chapter 15 Techniques of Blood Transfusion
Randy Covin
Chapter 16 Complications of Transfusion
Scott Koepsell
Chapter 17 Transfusion‐Transmitted Diseases
Jeffrey McCullough
Chapter 18 The HLA System in Transfusion Medicine and Transplantation
Yoon Choo
Chapter 19 Cellular Engineering for the Production of Blood Components
David Stroncek, David McKenna
Chapter 20 Therapeutic Apheresis
Ram Reddy
Chapter 21 Quality Programs in Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine
Kristin Mascotti
Index
