Transfusion Medicine, 3rd Edition

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.

The new edition of Transfusion Medicine offers a concise, clinically focused, and practical approach to the diagnosis and management of the full range of issues in transfusion and blood banking. It reviews the most common disorders involving red blood cells, white blood cells and hemostasis. The book also examines each disease state with discussions of underlying pathophysiology, clinical features, up-to-date laboratory tests and current management strategies. It is split into twenty chapters covering all issues relating to blood transfusion and blood banking. A tinted text design is used to highlight tables and boxes of key points throughout. It is completely revised and updated throughout to incorporate all the latest developments in transfusion medicine. It presents the practice-proven experience of a leader in the field of pathology and hematology and includes chapter summaries throughout for quick access to key information. Blood transfusion specialists given their expertise in handling and storing cells will play a major role in these new fields as they evolve. A competent and concise handbook that covers the full range of issues in transfusion medicine and blood banking is essential. It offers complete, quick access guidance on the full range of topics in blood bank and transfusion, from blood collection and storage, to testing and transfusing blood components, as well as cellular engineering. It will be useful not only to those working in transfusion medicine, but also valuable to those who need quick and concise answers to their clinical questions and problems.The following areas in particular will be updated:- Current debate on clinical effects of stored RBCs- Platelet dose- Use of FFP - INR role- Plasma vs FFP- Cord banking- RBC panel work-up - more specific on how to- Evolution of a blood centre to manufacturing plant- Regional donations- Sullivan national survey of blood supply and utilization- Current information regarding adverse effects of EPO- Emerging infectious diseases and impact on blood safety- World blood supply- Nitrous oxide in RBC storage and implications for transfusion- Status of novel cell therapies- New concepts of massive transfusion - early correction of coagulation deficit- RBC substitutes update- Young donors (<18) - reactions- Bacterial contamination of platelets- Apheresis technology - double RBCs collection and equipment to collect other components