Transfusion medicine / Jeffrey McCullough.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCullough, Jeffrey J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blood--Transfusion.

Blood.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (607 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Transfusion Medicine offers a concise, clinically focused and practical approach to this important area of medicine. This well-known handbook presents the experience of a world leader in the field of blood banking and transfusion therapy. Transfusion Medicine offers complete guidance on the full range of topics from donor recruitment, blood collection and storage, to testing and transfusing blood components, complications and transmissible diseases, as well as cellular engineering, therapeutic apheresis, and the role of hematopoietic growth factors. This third edition include

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-33330-9

9786613333308

1-4443-9874-1

1-4443-9872-5

1-4443-9871-7

OCLC:

778339408