Practical Transfusion Medicine

This new edition of the comprehensive guide to transfusion medicine is now fully revised and updated. The Third Edition includes two new sections, one on alternatives to blood transfusion, and one on cellular and tissues therapy and organ transplantation. It focuses on clinical aspects but also covers background science and organizational issues. This timely volume highlights controversial issues and provides advice for everyday clinical questions in transfusion medicine. Practical Transfusion Medicine, Third Edition, is an essential manual for all those working in modern transfusion medicine.

Michael F. Murphy MD, FRCP, FRCPath
Professor of Blood Transfusion Medicine, University of Oxford
Consultant Haematologist, NHS Blood & Transplant and Department of Haematology, The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK

Derwood H. Pamphilon MD, MRCPCH, FRCP, FRCPath
Consultant Haematologist, NHS Blood & Transplant
Honorary Clinical Reader, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

Recent evolution of transfusion medicine
Basic principles of immunohaematology
Essential immunology for transfusion medicine
Human blood group systems
Human leucocyte antigens
Platelet and neutrophil antigens
Complications of transfusion
Approach to the investigation and management of transfusion reactions
Haemolytic transfusion reactions
Febrile and allergic transfusion reactions
Transfusion-related acute lung injury
Transfusion-related immunomodulation
Micro-chimerism and transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease
Post-tranfusion purpura
Tranfusion-transmitted infections
Bacterial contamination
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Emerging infections and transfusion safety
Practice in blood centres and hospitals
Regulatory aspects of blood transfusion
The role of haemovigilance in transfusion safety
Donors and blood collection
Blood donation testing and the safety of the blood supply
Production and storage of blood components
Medicolegal aspects of transfusion practice
Blood transfusion in hospitals
Blood transfusion in a global context
Clinical transfusion practice
Good blood management: the effective and safe use of blood components
Prenatal and childhood transfusions
Haematological disease
Blood transfusion in the management of patients with haemoglobinopathies
Massive blood loss
Inherited and acquired coagulation disorders
Recombinant proteins in diagnosis and therapy
Immunodeficiency and immunoglobulin therapy
Alternatives to transfusion
The principles of bloodless medicine and surgery
Autologous transfusion
Blood substitutes
Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

FREE SHIPPING

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

Practical Transfusion Medicine

Summary

Author Biography

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials