Handbook Of Blood Banking And Transfusion Medicine (with Cd Rom)

BLOOD BANKING, 1. Transfusion Medicine of Today and the Future, 2. WHO Initiatives on Safe Blood Programs in the Developing Countries, 3. Organization and Operation of a Regional Blood Transfusion Center in India, 4. Blood Donor Suitability and Donation Complications, 5. Leukoreduction of Blood Components, 6. Platelets in Health and Disease, 7. Recent Advances in Platelet Preservation and Testing, 8. The HLA System and Transfusion Medicine, 9. Transfusion-associated Graft-vs-Host Disease, CLINICAL USE OF BLOOD COMPONENTS, 10. Blood Component Administration and Initial Management of Transfusion Reactions, 11. Blood Component Transfusion Guidelines for Transfusing Physicians, 12. Transfusions in Critically Ill Patients, 13. Blood Transfusion in the Operating Room, 14. Massive Transfusions, 15. Transfusion Therapy for Hemoglobinopathies, 16. Hemorrhagic Disorders in the Surgical Patient, 17. Thrombotic Disorders in the Surgical Patient, 18. Plasma Transfusion Therapy, 19. Use of Cryoprecipitate, 20. Coagulation Therapy in Hemophilia, HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION, 21. Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Malignant Diseases, 22. Unrelated Donor Stem Cell Transplantation: The Role of the National Marrow Donor Program, 23. Umbilical Cord Blood Banking, 24. Hematopoietic Stem Cell Processing, 25. Infusion of Hematopoietic Stem Cells, 26. Bone Marrow Transplantation: Procedures and Practices in a Developing Country. The monograph has 26 chapters on current topics in blood banking, transfusion medicine and stem cell transplantation. This book will serve as a guide to health care providers in the blood banking profession, as well as physicians, who work in the area of transfusion medicine and stem cell transplantation. The authors are outstanding experts in their fields. The authors of four chapters are experts from India, with another by authors from Geneva and the remaining 21 chapters are from the staff of University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis Minnesota, USA. Twenty-six chapters in all are divided into three sections; blood banking, clinical use of blood components, and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Provides detailed up-to-date information about general blood banking, blood components, clinical use and complications of blood component transfusion and stem cell transplantation. Will serve as a guide to individuals who are in blood banking profession and equally helpful to those physicians who transfuse blood and those entering the field of stem cell transplantation.