Transfusion medicine
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Transfusion medicine
McGraw-Hill, Health Professions Division, c1998
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Providing core "need to know" information for current topics in immunohaematology/transfusion medicine and blood banking, this text covers such topics as: preparation of blood components; pre-transfusion in special situations; transfusion techniques; and transfusion-transmitted diseases.
Table of Contents
- History
- the US blood supply system
- blood supply systems in other countries
- the safety of the US blood supply
- medical assessment and screening of blood donors
- whole blood collection
- production of components by apheresis
- laboratory testing of donated blood
- preparation, storage and characteristics of blood components
- blood groups
- laboratory detection of blood groups and pre-transfusion testing
- transfusion therapy
- transfusion in special situations
- techniques of blood transfusion
- complications of transfusion - recognition and management
- transfusion-transmitted diseases
- therapeutic apheresis
- use of haematopoietic growth factors in transfusion medicine
- blood substitutes.
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