ABC of transfusion
This title is a comprehensive guide that covers all practical aspects of transfusion and provides full background knowledge for all those in the medical profession who use blood.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, UK ; Hoboken, New Jersey :
Wiley-Blackwell ,
c2009
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| Edition: | 4th ed |
| Series: | ABC series
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The blood donor: demographics, donor selection and tests on donor blood
- 2. Supply and demand for blood and blood components, and stock management
- 3. Compatibility testing before transfusion; blood ordering and administration
- 4. Red cells transfusion
- 5. Platelet and granulocyte transfusions
- 6. Haemolytic disease of the newborn and its prevention
- 7. Fetal and neonatal transfusion
- 8. Plasma products and indications for their use
- 9. Human albumin solutions and the controversy of crystalloids versus colloids
- 10. Treatment of massive haemorrhage in surgery and trauma
- 11. Immunological complications of blood transfusion
- 12. Infectious complications of blood transfusion: bacteria and parasites
- 13. Infectious complications of blood transfusion: viruses
- 14. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and its impact on the UK blood supply
- 15. Risks of transfusion in the context of haemovigilance. SHOT: the UK haemovigilance system
- 16. Alternatives to allogeneic blood transfusion
- 17. Blood substitutes and oxygen therapeutics
- 18. Appropriate use of blood and better blood transfusion
- 19. Stem cell transplantation and cellular therapies
- 20. Blood transfusion in a regulatory environment and the EU directive