Transfusion Medicine offers a concise, clinically focusedand practical approach to this important area of medicine.
This well-known handbook presents the experience of a worldleader in the field of blood banking and transfusion therapy.Transfusion Medicine offers complete guidance on the fullrange of topics from donor recruitment, blood collection andstorage, to testing and transfusing blood components, complicationsand transmissible diseases, as well as cellular engineering,therapeutic apheresis, and the role of hematopoietic growthfactors.
This third edition includes updated information on a number ofareas including:
* Current debate on clinical effects of stored red bloodcells
* 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 thoseworking in the field of blood banking and transfusion. It is a goodintroduction to transfusion for hematology or oncology fellows andtechnologists specialising in blood banking.
Jeff McCullough
Blood Transfusion Bluttransfusion Bluttransfusionen Hämatologie Hematology Medical Science Medizin
"This edition continues the tradition of excellencedemonstrated in the first two editions. It is a must for anytransfusion service director or physician heavily engaged intransfusion practices." (Doody's, 24August 2012)
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