Transfusion Medicine, 4th Edition

Author: Jeffrey McCullough, MD
Publisher: Wiley Blackwell
Date Published: 2017
Pages: 575
Cover Type: Soft Cover
Expiration Date: 12/31/2021

Transfusion Medicine, 4th Edition provides a concise, clinically focused, and practical approach to the field of blood banking and transfusion therapy. It offers comprehensive information on topics from transfusion therapies, novel cellular therapies, donor recruitment, blood collection and storage, to testing and techniques for transfusing blood components, complications, and transmissible diseases, as well as therapeutic apheresis and the role of hematopoietic growth factors. This edition also discusses the clinical effects of stored red blood cells, emerging infectious diseases including the Ebola, Chikungunya, and Zika epidemics, and impact on blood safety, world blood supply, platelet transfuion, and pathogen inactivation.

Table of Contents:
Section A quiz (Chapters 2-10)

• The Blood Supply
• Recruitment of Blood Donors
• Blood Donor Medical Assessment and Blood Collection
• Preparation, Storage, and Characteristics of Blood Components and Plasma Derivatives
• Patient Blood Management
• Production of Components by Apheresis
• Laboratory Testing of Donated Blood
• Blood Groups
• Laboratory Detection of Blood Groups and Provision of Red Cells.

Section B quiz (Chapters 11-20)

• Clinical Uses of Blood Components
• Transfusion Therapy in Specific Clinical Situations
• Techniques of Blood Transfusion
• Complications of Transfusion
• Transfusion-Transmitted Diseases
• The HLA System in Transfusion Medicine and Transplantation
• Hematopoietic Growth Factors in Transfusion Medicine
• Cellular Engineering for the Production of New Blood Components
• Therapeutic Apheresis
• Quality Programs in Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine.

   Transfusion Medicine will be valuable to all those working in the field of blood banking and transfusion, including technologists specializing in blood banking.