Practical Transfusion Medicine

Highly Commended - 2010 BMA Medical Book AwardsAn essential, practical manual for all those working intransfusion medicine* Concise and user-friendly guide to transfusion medicine* Focuses on clinical aspects but also covers background scienceand organizational issues* Complications encountered in transfusion are addressedthroughout* Highlights controversial issues and provides advice foreveryday clinical questions in transfusion medicineThis comprehensive guide to transfusion medicine takes apractical and didactic approach. The third edition of this textincludes many new contributions and has expanded to seven sections.The first of these takes the reader systematically through theprinciples of transfusion medicine. The second deals with thecomplications which can arise in transfusion and is followed by asection on the practice of transfusion in blood centres andhospitals. The fourth section covers clinical transfusion practiceand the fifth looks at alternatives to transfusion. Sectionsix addresses cellular and tissue therapy and organ transplantationand the final section of the book examines the development of theevidence base for transfusion. As with previous editions; the finalsection includes a visionary chapter on future advances in thefield.This new edition of Practical Transfusion Medicinebenefits from even more international authorship than the previoustwo editions and is an invaluable resource for trainee doctors,scientists, technicians and other staff in haematology andtransfusion and as a reference book for clinical staff inhaematology and other disciplines faced with specificproblems.