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.

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.