Transfusion medicine

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCullough, Jeffrey J.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
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.