Practical transfusion medicine /

The pace of change in transfusion medicine is relentless, with new scientific and technological developments. In addition, efforts are continuing to improve clinical transfusion practice and avoid the use of blood wherever possible. This fourth edition continues to be a concise and comprehensive gui...

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Group Author: Murphy, Michael F. Michael Furber; Pamphilon, Derwood H; Heddle, Nancy M
Published: Wiley-Blackwell, a John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Publication,
Publisher Address: Chichester, West Sussex, UK :
Publication Dates: 2013.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Edition: Fourth edition.
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Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118520093
Summary: The pace of change in transfusion medicine is relentless, with new scientific and technological developments. In addition, efforts are continuing to improve clinical transfusion practice and avoid the use of blood wherever possible. This fourth edition continues to be a concise and comprehensive guide to transfusion medicine. It has been thoroughly revised and updated throughout. The scope of the book has been broadened by including more international authors and a new co-editor, Professor Nancy Heddle, an expert in evidence-based transfusion medicine. This book is ideal for trainee/resident
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xvi, 549 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781118520086
1118520084
9781118520093
1118520092
9781299241527
1299241522
Index Number: RM171
CLC: R457.1
Contents: Introduction: recent evolution of transfusion medicine -- Part one: basic principles of immunohaematology. -- Essential immunology for transfusion medicine -- Human blood group systems -- Human leucocyte antigens -- Platelet and neutrophil antigens -- Part two: Complications of transfusions. -- Investigation of acute transfusion reactions -- Haemolytic transfusion reactions -- Febrile and allergic transfusion reactions -- Acute lung injury after transfusion -- Purported adverse effects of transfusion-related immunomodulation and of the transfusion of 'old blood' -- Transfusion-associated gra
Part five: Alternatives to transfusion. Principles of patient blood management -- Autologous transfusion -- Blood substitutes -- Pharmacological agents and recombinant activated factor VIIa -- Part six: Cellular and tissue therapy and organ transplantation. Regulation and accreditation in cellular therapy -- Stem cell collection and therapeutic apheresis -- Haemopoietic stem cell processing and storage -- Haemopoietic stem cell transplantation -- Cord blood transplantation -- Recent advances in clinical cellular immunotherapy -- Tissue banking -- Part seven: Development of the evidence base