Transfusion Medicine

Highlights


ML6922 Transfusion Medicine - 2nd Ed, 2005, McCullough, MD	$42.00/ea

Description

Guidance on blood collection and storage, testing and transfusing blood components, cellular engineering, and more
Includes chapter summaries and imagery

Table of Contents

1 History
2 The U.S. blood supply system
3 Recruitment of blood donors
4 Blood donor medical assessment and blood collection
5 Preparation, storage, and characteristics of blood components and plasma derivatives
6 Autologous blood donation and transfusion
7 Production of components by apheresis
8 Laboratory testing of donated blood
9 Blood groups
10 Laboratory detection of blood groups and provision of red cells
11 Clinical uses of blood components
12 Transfusion therapy in specific clinical situations
13 Techniques of blood transfusion
14 Complications of transfusion 381
15 Transfusion-transmitted diseases
16 The HLA system and transfusion medicine – S. Yoon Choo
17 Hematopoietic growth factors in transfusion medicine
18 Cellular engineering for the production of new blood components
19 Therapeutic apheresis
20 Quality programs in blood banking and transfusion medicine