Transfusion medicine
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex, UK:
Wiley-Blackwell,
2012.
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- History
- The blood supply
- Recruitment of blood donors
- Blood donor medical assessment and blood collection
- Preparation, storage, and characteristics of blood components and plasma derivatives
- Autologous blood donation and transfusion
- Production of components by apheresis
- Laboratory testing of donated blood
- Blood groups
- Laboratory detection of blood groups and provision of red cells
- Clinical uses of blood components
- Transfusion therapy in specific clinical situations
- Techniques of blood transfusion
- Complications of transfusion
- Transfusion-transmitted diseases
- The HLA system in transfusion medicine and transplantation / S. Yoon Choo
- Hematopoietic growth factors in transfusion medicine
- Cellular engineering for the production of new blood components
- Therapeutic apheresis
- Quality programs in blood banking and transfusion medicine