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Perioperative transfusion medicine

[edited by] Bruce D. Spiess, Richard B. Counts, Steven A. Gould

Williams & Wilkins, c1998

1st ed

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Thoroughly updated for its Second Edition, this volume is the most comprehensive, current reference on perioperative transfusion medicine and coagulation. It provides complete information on all current blood products and transfusion risks, transfusion and coagulation issues during the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative periods, and specific concerns in each surgical subspecialty. Eighteen new chapters in this edition cover blood shortages, economic concerns, emergency needs, virus transmission, parasitic and septic risks, immunosuppression risks, non-infectious risks, production and storage issues, hemoglobin-based oxygen-carrying solutions, perfluorocarbon-based oxygen-carrying solutions, preoperative plateletphoresis, volume resuscitation, antifibrinolytics, aprotinin, DDAVP, platelet inhibitors, burn patients, and post-surgical stress response.

Table of Contents

  • Transfusion medicine in the surgical patient
  • a physiologic basis for the transfusion trigger
  • physiology of haemostasis
  • infectious risks of transfusion
  • preoperative autologous blood donation
  • red cell substitutes
  • surgery in the patient who refuses transfusion
  • quality control of hospital transfusion practices
  • legal duties to patients and dispute resolution
  • perioperative coagulation monitoring
  • surgical management of congenital clotting
  • blood conservation techniques in anaesthesia
  • massive transfusion
  • hypothermia and haemorrhage
  • coagulation, transfusion, and cardiac surgery
  • haemorrhage in orthopaedic surgery
  • intraoperative monitoring of oxygen supply and consumption
  • fibrin glue
  • the transfusion decision
  • anaemia in the postoperative period. (Part contents).

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