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More About This Title Transfusion Medicine, 4e
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Concise, approachable, yet comprehensive approach to the field of transfusion medicine and blood bankingOffers extensive guidance on important topics such as; donor recruitment, blood collection and storage, donor testing and clinical uses of blood components, techniques of administration of blood components, complications of transfusion, transmissible diseases, the HLA system, and many moreProvides new content on patient blood management systems, the changing indications for red cell transfusion, new transmissible disease agents, management of massive blood loss, pathogen reduced blood components, therapeutic apheresis including photopheresis, management of massive transfusion and new cellular therapies.Discusses global blood supply and US blood supply organizations and their consolidation and reorganization Reviews other topics of current interest, such as mitigation strategies for TRALI prevention, effects of storage of blood on adverse effects, management of massive blood loss and massive transfusion protocols pathogen inactivation, and granulocyte transfusion Extensively referenced for further study
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Jeffrey McCullough MD, Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Dr. McCullough is an international leader in research and practice of transfusion medicine blood banking and blood safety. He is a former editor of the journal Transfusion and has published more than 300 articles in the medical literature involving a wide range of issues in transfusion medicine and blood banking. Recently his research has focused on clinical trials involving transfusion medicine especially of pathogen inactivated blood; and blood donation and blood banking practices in developing countries.
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Preface to the Fourth Edition, vi
Chapter 1 History, 1
Chapter 2 The Blood Supply, 13
Chapter 3 Recruitment of Blood Donors, 28
Chapter 4 Blood Donor Medical Assessment and Blood Collection, 41
Chapter 5 Preparation, Storage, and Characteristics of Blood Components and Plasma Derivatives, 67
Chapter 6 Patient Blood Management, 100
Chapter 7 Production of Components by Apheresis, 122
Chapter 8 Laboratory Testing of Donated Blood, 149
Chapter 9 Blood Groups, 173
Chapter 10 Laboratory Detection of Blood Groups and Provision of Red Cells, 210
Chapter 11 Clinical Uses of Blood Components, 242
Chapter 12 Transfusion Therapy in Specific Clinical Situations, 304
Chapter 13 Techniques of Blood Transfusion, 360
Chapter 14 Complications of Transfusion, 377
Chapter 15 Transfusion?]Transmitted Diseases, 412
Chapter 16 The HLA System in Transfusion Medicine and Transplantation, 446
Chapter 17 Hematopoietic Growth Factors in Transfusion Medicine, 474
Chapter 18 Cellular Engineering for the Production of New Blood Components, 492
Chapter 19 Therapeutic Apheresis, 521
Chapter 20 Quality Programs in Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine, 560
Index, 578
