Transfusion Medicine - Couverture souple

McCullough, Jeff

 
9780070451131: Transfusion Medicine

Synopsis

Providing core "need to know" information for current topics in immunohaematology/transfusion medicine and blood banking, this text covers such topics as: preparation of blood components; pre-transfusion in special situations; transfusion techniques; and transfusion-transmitted diseases.

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Quatrième de couverture

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
  • Global 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.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Revised and updated throughout, the 2nd Edition offers a concise, clinically focused and practical approach to the diagnosis and management of the full range of issues in transfusion and blood banking. The author reviews the most common disorders involving red blood cells, white blood cells and haemostasis and examines each disease state with discussions of underlying pathophysiology, clinical features, up-to-date lab tests and current management strategies.

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