Handbook of transfusion medicine
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Bibliographic Information
Handbook of transfusion medicine
Academic Press, c2001
Available at 5 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Handbook of Transfusion Medicine is unique in that it provides a comprehensive and practical description of all blood products and blood cell types currently used in transfusions, their appropriate applications, pathophysiology of conditions managed by transfusion, and pathophysiology of adverse reactions. Each chapter follows a standard format including numerous tables and algorithms, with summary elements highlighted throughout by a second-color for quick reference.
Table of Contents
Blood Collection, Testing, and Processing
Introduction to Blood Donors and Donation.
Infectious Disease Testing.
Component Preparation and Storage.
Blood Components
Packed Red Blood Cells and Related Products.
Fresh Frozen Plasma and Related Products.
Cryoprecipitate and Related Products.
Platelets and Related Products.
Granulocytes.
Coagulation Factor Concentrates.
Albumin, Gamma Globulin and Related Derivatives.
Red Blood Cell Antigens and Antibodies
Red Blood Cell Antigens and Human Blood Groups.
Pre-Transfusion Compatibility Testing.
Special Investigations in the Work-Up of Unexpected Antibodies and Blood Group Incompatibilities.
Specialized Component Processing or Testing
Leukoreduced Products.
CMV and Other Virus-Safe Products.
Irradiated Components.
Washed and Volume-Reduced Components.
Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Related Cellular Products
Bone-Marrow-Derived Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells.
Peripheral-Blood-Derived Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells.
Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells.
Mononuclear Cell Preparations.
Specialized Transfusion Situations
Approach to Acute Bleeding and Massive Transfusion.
Evaluation of the Bleeding Patient.
Approach to the Platelet Refractory Patient.
Approach to Transfusion in Obstetrics: Maternal and Fetal Considerations.
Transfusion Management of Infants and Children.
Approach to the Immunocompromised Patient.
Transfusion Reactions
Acute and Delayed Hemolytic Transfusion Reactions.
Febrile nonhemolytic Transfusion Reactions.
Allergic Transfusion Reactions.
Other Non-infectious Complications of Transfusion.
Infectious Complications of Transfusion
Hepatitis.
CMV and Other Herpesviruses.
HIV and HTLV.
Other Transfusion-Transmitted Infections.
Bacterial Contamination of Blood Products.
Therapeutic Apheresis
Overview and Practical Aspects of Therapeutic Apheresis.
Therapeutic Plasma Exchange: Rationales and Indications.
Therapeutic Cytapheresis: Red Blood Cell Exchange, Leukapheresis, and Thrombocytopheresis (Plateletpheresis).
Consent, Quality and Related Issues
Informed Consent for Transfusion.
Home Transfusion.
Lookback and Recipient Notification, Product Recalls and Withdrawls.
Process Improvement: One Essential of a Quality System.
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