Explore this concise and clinically focused approach to the field of blood banking and transfusion therapy
The Fifth Edition of Transfusion Medicine delivers a succinct, thorough, clinically focused, practical and authoritative treatment of a full range of topics in transfusion therapy. This ranges from issues with the blood supply, recruitment of both whole blood and apheresis donors, blood collection and storage, blood testing, blood safety, and transmissible diseases. This edition has been fully updated and revised to include exciting cellular therapies for cancer, transplantation of both hematopoietic cells and solid organs, infectious diseases and regenerative medicine.
The Fifth Edition includes new authors with highly relevant content that provides a solid grounding for readers in the field. The book:
- Is an approachable comprehensive guide to the field of blood banking and transfusion medicine
- Provides complete and timely perspective on crucial topics, including the HLA system in transfusion medicine and transplantation and quality programs in blood banking and transfusion medicine
- Is extensively referenced, making it simple for readers to conduct further research on the topics of interest to them
- Includes new chapters on pediatric transfusion medicine and pathogen reduction
- Has an expended chapter on patient blood management
- Provides extensive discussions of the clinical use of blood transfusion in a wide variety of clinical situations including recent development In the management of acute traumatic blood loss
- Provides updated information about blood groups and molecular testing making inroads into clinical practice along with discussions of laboratory detection of blood groups and provision of red cells
Perfect for all those working in the field of blood banking, transfusion medicine and hematology or oncology and fellows in pathology, hematology, surgery and anesthesiology. Transfusion Medicine is a good introduction for technologists specializing in blood banking and non-medical personnel working in areas related to hematology and transfusion medicine. Transfusion Medicine will also earn a place in the libraries of practicing pathologists with responsibility for blood banks.
Table of Contents
Contributors vii
Preface ix
Chapter 1 History 1
Jeffrey McCullough
Chapter 2 The Blood Supply 11
Jeffrey McCullough
Chapter 3 Recruitment of Blood Donors 25
Thomas Watkins
Chapter 4 Blood Donor Medical Assessment, Collection, and Complications 37
Gary Bachowski
Chapter 5 Preparation, Storage, and Characteristics of Whole Blood, Blood Components, and Plasma Derivatives 59
Alesia Kaplan
Chapter 6 Production of Components by Apheresis 90
Thomas Gniadek
Chapter 7 Laboratory Testing of Donated Blood 111
Nancy Van Buren
Chapter 8 Blood Groups 135
Sarah J. Ilstrup
Chapter 9 Laboratory Detection of Blood Groups and Provision of Red Cells 168
Ulrike F. Koenigbauer
Chapter 10 Clinical Uses of Blood Components 197
Vincent Laroche and Isabelle Blais‐Normandin
Chapter 11 Transfusion Therapy in Specific Clinical Situations 257
James Stubbs, Allan Klompas, and Leanne Thalji
Chapter 12 Patient Blood Management 325
Jeffrey McCullough
Chapter 13 Pediatric Transfusion Medicine 343
Stephanie Kinney
Chapter 14 Pathogen Reduced Blood Products 359
Jeffrey McCullough
Chapter 15 Techniques of Blood Transfusion 376
Randal Covin
Chapter 16 Complications of Transfusion 39
Scott Koepsell
Chapter 17 Transfusion‐Transmitted Diseases 422
Jeffrey McCullough
Chapter 18 The HLA System in Transfusion Medicine and Transplantation 453
S. Yoon Choo
Chapter 19 Cellular Engineering: Hematopoietic Transplant, Immune Cell Therapy, and Regenerative Medicine 477
David H. McKenna and David F. Stroncek
Chapter 20 Therapeutic Apheresis 500
Ramkrishna L. Reddy
Chapter 21 Quality Programs in Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine 541
Kristin M. Mascotti
Index 556
