Revised throughout, the 2nd Edition offers quick access to a full range of topics in blood banking and transfusion-from blood collection and storage...to testing and transfusing blood components...to cellular engineering.
Jeffrey McCullough, MD, a leader in the field, reviews the most common disorders and provides discussions of pathophysiology, clinical features, up-to-date lab tests, and current management strategies.
• Discusses hot topics such as apheresis for the collection of red cells • techniques for the transfusion of hematopoietic stem cells • and newer cellular engineering techniques.
Provides up-to-the-minute guidance on bacterial contamination of blood components and transfusion-transmitted infections • nucleic acid amplification testing of donated blood • transfusion-related acute lung injury • leukocyte reauction of blood components • the US blood supply • the use of hemotopoietic growth factors in transfusion medicine • and more.