4. Edition - March 2009
38.90 Euro
2009. 128 Pages, Softcover
- Practical Approach Book -
ISBN-10: 1-4051-5646-5
ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-5646-2 - John Wiley & Sons






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Detailed description
The ABC of Transfusion is a comprehensive, highly regarded guide to all the practical aspects of blood transfusion. Blood services and clinical blood transfusion have become more scientific, well organised and managed over the last 10 years and more is known about the aetiology of the complications of blood transfusions.

This new edition includes five new chapters on all the latest issues including vCJD, stem cell transplantation, immunotherapy, blood matching and appropriate use of transfusion, reflecting the fact that transfusion medicine has been revolutionised. This fourth edition provides an ideal source of information for all health professionals involved with safe and efficient blood transfusion.

From the 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 and blood ordering policies.

4 Transfusion of red cells.

5 Platelet and granulocyte transfusions.

6 Haemolytic disease of the newborn and its prevention.

7 Fetal and neonatal transfusion.

8 Plasma, plasma products and indications for their use (to include plasma exchange).

9 Human albumin solutions and the controversy of crystalloids versus colloids.

10 The treatment of massive haemorrhage: in surgery and in trauma.

11 Immunological complications of transfusion.

12 Infectious complications of blood transfusion: bacteria and parasites.

13 Infectious complications of blood transfusion: viruses.

14 vCJD and its impact on the UK blood supply.

15 Cellular and immunotherapies.

16 Alternatives to allogeneic blood transfusion including autologous transfusion.

17 Blood substitutes.

18 Risks of transfusion in the context of haemovigilance. SHOT: the UK haemovigilance system.

19 Appropriate use of blood and "Better Blood Transfusion".

20 Blood transfusion in a regulatory environment and the EU Directive