Discussing the risks involved in receiving blood transfusions under the threat of AIDS, the author documents the inadequacies of the blood-bank system, suggesting transfusion alternatives.

If your Med Tech and Med Lab Tech students buy one book this should be it! The second edition of this respected text provides a well-rounded introduction to immunohematology that includes superior explanations of procedures. Utilizing an easy-to-read, user-friendly format, the text successfully conveys the complex principles and practices of blood banking. Following a clear progression from basic to complex concepts, coverage more than meets the most current requirements of the AABB. Actual work experience references provide an accurate look at the field. New in this edition: 3 New Chapters -- Hemapheresis, Regulatory Overview, and Process Control; 2 New Sections -- Quality Assurance/Regulatory Issues, and Serologic Techniques; Two-Color Format; 40 New Illustrations; 8-Page, 4-Color Insert; includes Chapter Outlines, Summaries, Summary Boxes, Tables and Case Studies. Compatibility: BlackBerry® OS 4.1 or Higher / iPhone/iPod Touch 2.0 or Higher /Palm OS 3.5 or higher / Palm Pre Classic / Symbian S60, 3rd edition (Nokia) / Windows Mobile™ Pocket PC (all versions) / Windows Mobile Smartphone / Windows 98SE/2000/ME/XP/Vista/Tablet PC

Commended in the Haematology category at the British Medical Association Book Awards 2008 This unique and practical book introduces the reader to the concept of blood management and explains how to improve patient outcomes by avoiding undue blood loss, enhancing the patient’s own blood, effective management of anemia and coagulopathy. Basics of Blood Management is the first book dedicated to blood management, a multidisciplinary and multimodality concept that focuses on patient outcome. A practical and comprehensive text on the new and exciting field of blood management Takes an international perspective, covering conditions encountered in developing and industrial countries Covers all areas of organization, methods and tools Gives the reader an understanding of the concept and philosophy of blood management Provides clinical scenarios and exercises that help the reader to adapt information for their location Whether you are an early practising clinician in hematology, transfusion, critical care, anesthesiology, surgery or internal medicine, a nursing specialist, trainee or other member of the multidisciplinary blood management team, this book will answer all your questions about blood management as an aid in improving patient outcome.

Discusses the worldwide traffic in human blood and blood products, the history of the use of blood in medicine, the evolution of the modern blood bank, and the spread of AIDS and other diseases through the distribution of contaminated blood

Product Description: In the mid-1980s public health officials in North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia discovered that almost half of the hemophiliac population, as well as tens of thousands of blood transfusion recipients, had been infected with HIV-tainted blood...read more

Product Description: The fifth edition of Blood Bank Regulations: A to Z is a comprehensive guide to the compliance issues facing blood banks and transfusion services. It provides an alphabetical listing of over 300 topics related to blood banking and gives the federal regulatory references and AABB standards for each...read more

Product Description: Thousands of hemophiliac children have contracted hepatitis and aids from transfusion with infected blood. Ninety-five percent of all Americans will need transfusions at some point in their lives; yet it has taken the terrifying emergence of AIDS to alert an unsuspecting public to the actual risks involved...read more

Product Description: In a shocking exposé of the American Red Cross, award-winning journalist Judith Reitman rips the veil of secrecy off the world's largest humanitarian charity. In 1984 triplet girls born three months prematurely received life-saving blood transfusions...read more

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Discusses the moral, social, and economic questions posed by modern blood transfusion services (view table of contents)

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Product Description: During the early years of the AIDS epidemic, thousands of Americans became infected with HIV through the nation's blood supply. Because little reliable information existed at the time AIDS first began showing up in hemophiliacs and in others who had received transfusions, experts disagreed about whether blood and blood products could transmit the disease...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Blood Safety: Current Challenges [Nov 01, 1992] Nance, Sandra Taddie

Product Description: Book by Piliavin, Professor Jane A., Callero, Professor Peter L.