This fully revised edition covers all the protocols for blood transfusion and new colour photographs have been added. A practical guide covering every aspect including donors, tests, complications, and screening for hepatitis C, making it a useful aid for any clinician.

Product Description: Extensive measures are taken to ensure that blood transfusion poses a minimal microbiological hazard to recipients. Transfusion Microbiology is the definitive text on all aspects of transfusion transmitted infections. This comprehensive text covers all medical, scientific, technical and developmental aspects of this critically important sector of transfusion medicine...read more

Product Description: A global perspective is fundamental for collaborative approaches to global issues and for reexamining local practices for potential improvement. A panel of experts from 13 countries offers a comprehensive understanding of issues in the transfusion chain from blood collection to hemovigilance and from setting standards in developing countries to using cutting-edge technologies in the developed world...read more

This classic text aims to describe the scientific basis of all aspects of blood transfusion. It provides background information, advice and technical details for both researchers and clinicians, as well as a glossary of frequently used terms and abbreviations. This edition has been very extensively revised to take account of recent advances. "No person and no institution concerned with blood transfusion can afford to be without this book." (Clinical and Laboratory Haematology) (view table of contents)

Product Description: Supplement Issue: Vol. 67, Suppl. 5 (1994) Vox Sanguinis