Product Description: Patient Blood Management (PBM) is an innovative clinical concept that aims to reduce the need forallogenic blood transfusions, cut health-care costs, and avert or correct the risk factors related toblood transfusion, thus minimizing the rate of side effects and complications...read more

Product Description: Transfusion Update covers a broad range of topics concerning blood banks and transfusion, including collection and storage, testing and transfusing blood components, and cellular therapies. Comprised of four sections, divided into 81 chapters, the book begins with a section on clinical haemotherapy, which incorporates transfusion in medicine, surgery, maternal foetal and neonatal practice, massive transfusion, platelet therapy and apheresis...read more

Product Description: Giving Blood represents a new agenda for blood donation research. It explores the diverse historical and contemporary undercurrents that influence how blood donation takes place, and the social meanings that people attribute to the act of giving blood...read more

Product Description: Mallory had it all - great friends, a handsome boyfriend, and a very successful bakery business. Her life was orderly and neat, just as she liked it. But when she crosses paths with a blond-haired, blue-eyed man named Greyson, everything changes...read more

Product Description: This text is a review of molecular immunohematology (MI). It draws from analyses and case studies around the world and details many techniques used in many labs. It is aimed at anyone interested in how MI is changing blood bank and transfusion medicine.

Product Description: Here, two of the foremost cardiothoracic surgeons have brought together many of the top cardiologists and haematologists to produce the most current reference source on all aspects of blood conservation, from an overall clinical approach to the use of erythropoietin and the benefits of post-operative blood salvage...read more

Product Description: This is the first book to address the needs of the ever-increasing population of long term survivors after stem cell transplantation. The book will focus on - how to follow up long term survivors after stem cell transplantation: preventing late deaths from transplant related complication and improving quality of life -  long term follow-up after stem cell transplantation: an unmet need in the literature, a growing field in medicine...read more

Product Description: Offering a conscise and user-friendly guide focusing on the clinical aspects of transfusion medicine, this new edition of Practical Transfusion Medicine has been fully revised and updated with an improved text layout and a new chapter on cytokines in transfusion medicine...read more

Product Description: The second edition of Transfusion Medicine and Hemostasis continues to be the only "pocket-size" quick reference for pathology residents and transfusion medicine fellows. It covers all topics in blood banking, transfusion medicine, and clinical and laboratory based coagulation...read more

Product Description: Authoritative experts in transfusion medicine describe in critical detail the most important procedures for obtaining, selecting, and transfusing red blood cells to patients. The topics covered include such key issues as transfusion problems in the immunocompromised, the complications of autoantibodies, transfusion of infants with hemolytic disease, difficulties arising from solid organ transplantation, stem cell transfusions, and the challenges of massive transfusion...read more

Product Description: * Hemovigilance is a "quality process" which aims to improve quality and increase safety of blood transfusion, by surveying all activities of the blood transfusion chain, from donors to recipients. Hemovigilance programmes have now been in existence for over 15 years, but many countries and centers are still at the development stage...read more

Product Description: Volume therapy or infusion therapy is used worldwide for the treatment of hypovolemia caused by surgical blood and plasma losses, trauma, burns, or infections. Interestingly, significant differences exist between countries regarding the use of plasma substitutes...read more

Product Description: Much like Vladimir Lenin, his onetime rival for the leadership of the Bolshevik party during its formative years, Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928) was a visionary. In two science fiction novels set on Mars, Bogdanov imagined a future in which the workers of the world, liberated from capitalist exploitation, create a “physiological collective” that rejuvenates and unites its members through regular blood exchanges...read more

Product Description: This edition features the latest discussions and findings in transfusion therapy and fills a niche between the handbook and weightier compendia, and provides guidance on how and when to prescribe blood components and derivatives. Enhanced content cover discussions of transfusion therapy in surgery, pediatric transfusion, transfusion-induced immunomodulation, transfusion in stem cell transplantation, and Rh immune globulin therapy...read more

Product Description: Transfusion Medicine and Hemostasis is a manual-style book that links transfusion medicine and hemostasis to laboratory methods and diagnostic tests engaged in routine and specialized coagulation laboratories. The book is divided into two main parts with chapters that are brief and readable...read more

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.

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.

Product Description: Transfusion Science 2/e covers the basic science behind the crucial areas of transfusion and transplantation. The book has a revised design and layout, and includes a greater number of case studies, to aid student understanding. The new edition has been extensively updated to cover the latest applications of molecular biology to transfusion science...read more