Transfusion medicine

Transfusion Medicine provides a concise, thorough, clinically focused, and practical approach to the field of blood banking and transfusion therapy written by international- expert, Jeffrey McCullough, MD. Transfusion Medicine offers comprehensive information on the full range of topics from transfusion therapies, novel cellular therapies, donor recruitment, blood collection and storage, to testing and techniques for transfusing blood components, complications and transmissible diseases, as well as therapeutic apheresis and the role of hematopoietic growth - factors. The fully updated and revised fourth edition also discusses the clinical effects of stored red blood cells, emerging infectious diseases including the Ebola, Chikungunya, and Zika epidemics, and impact on blood safety, world blood supply, platelet transfusion, and pathogen inactivation.

Is an approachable comprehensive guide to the field of blood banking and transfusion medicine.

Offers complete information and perspective on important topics such as; donor recruitment, blood collection and storage, testing and transfusing blood components, complications and transmissible diseases, cellular therapies, therapeutic apheresis, and many more.

Provides new content on patient blood management systems, the changing indications for red cell transfusion, the effect of red cell storage on complications, the use of photopheresis for GVHD, novel cell therapies (including T regulatory cells, mesenchymal stem cells, and viral specific T cells), and the changing uses of cord blood.

Discusses blood supply organizations and their future consolidation and reorganization.

Reviews current topics of interest, such as mitigation strategies for TRALI prevention and pathogen inactivation of blood components.

Offers extensive referencing for further study. --Book Jacket.

History -- The blood supply -- Recruitment of blood donors -- Blood donor medical assessment and blood collection -- Blood donor medical assessment and blood collection -- Patient blood management -- 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 -- 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.