(Ebook) Transfusion Medicine, Third Edition by Jeffrey McCullough(auth.) ISBN 9781444337051, 9781444398748, 144433705X, 1444398741

(Ebook) Transfusion Medicine, Third Edition by Jeffrey McCullough(auth.) ISBN 9781444337051, 9781444398748, 144433705X, 1444398741

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 cellsEmerging infectious diseases and impact on blood safetyNew concepts of massive transfusionWorld blood supplyPlatelet transfusionPathogen inactivationTransfusion 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 1–12): Chapter 2 The Blood Supply (pages 13–30): Chapter 3 Recruitment of Blood Donors (pages 31–42): Chapter 4 Blood Donor Medical Assessment and Blood Collection (pages 43–67): Chapter 5 Preparation, Storage, and Characteristics of Blood Components and Plasma Derivatives (pages 68–99): Chapter 6 Autologous Blood Donation and Transfusion (pages 100–121): Chapter 7 Production of Components by Apheresis (pages 122–148): Chapter 8 Laboratory Testing of Donated Blood (pages 149–171): Chapter 9 Blood Groups (pages 172–206): Chapter 10 Laboratory Detection of Blood Groups and Provision of Red Cells (pages 207–237): Chapter 11 Clinical Uses of Blood Components (pages 238–304): Chapter 12 Transfusion Therapy in Specific Clinical Situations (pages 305–361): Chapter 13 Techniques of Blood Transfusion (pages 362–377): Chapter 14 Complications of Transfusion (pages 378–413): Chapter 15 Transfusion?Transmitted Diseases (pages 414–445): Chapter 16 The HLA System in Transfusion Medicine and Transplantation (pages 446–473): S. Yoon ChooChapter 17 Hematopoietic Growth Factors in Transfusion Medicine (pages 474–491): Chapter 18 Cellular Engineering for the Production of New Blood Components (pages 492–520): Chapter 19 Therapeutic Apheresis (pages 521–553): Chapter 20 Quality Programs in Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine (pages 554–572):