Blood Safety and Surveillance
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Book Description
Presenting the most up-to-date and authoritative reference on the risks and risk-prevention strategies of blood transfusions, Blood Safety and Surveillance compiles a breadth of information on the reactions, immunological complications, and potential for disease transmission related to blood transfusions in a broad context.
Combines numerous resources to become the ideal, multifaceted one-stop handbook!
Balancing medical concerns with in-depth scientific research, Blood Safety and Surveillance
Written by nearly 40 expert contributors and containing almost 2000 literature references, tables, drawings, and photographs, Blood Safety and Surveillance immeasurably improves the arsenal of knowledge of hematologists, infectious disease specialists, blood bank personnel, intensive and critical care physicians, internists, public health officials, health care managers, and medical school students in these disciplines.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Impact of Blood Donor Screening Procedures on Transfusion Safety,
Steven Kleinman
Immunological Complications
Hemolytic Transfusion Reactions,
Elizabeth J. Kicklighter and Harvey G. Klein
Other Reactions and Alloimmunization,
Christopher J. Gresens and Paul V. Holland
Managing Error for System Improvement,
Harold S. Kaplan and James B. Battles
Graft-Versus-Host Disease,
Iain J. Webb and Kenneth C. Anderson
Transfusion-Related Acute Lung Injury,
Mark A. Popovsky
Clinical Effects of the Immunomodulation Associated with Allogeneic Blood Transfusion,
José O. Bordin and Morris A. Blajchman
Infectious Complications
General
Overview of Infectious Disease,
Roger Y. Dodd
Blood Donor Screening and Supplemental Testing: Principles, Procedures, and Consequences,
Jay E. Valinsky
Bacterial Infection
Bacterial Contamination,
Laura L. Spinelli and Mark E. Brecher
Viral Infections
HIV and Blood Transfusion,
Celso Bianco and Maria Rios
Hepatitis Viruses and Blood Transfusion,
Alfred M. Prince
Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus,
Maria Rios and Celso Bianco
Transfusion-Acquired Cytomegalovirus Infection: Approaching Resolution,
Gary E. Tegtmeier
Other
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Other Human Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies, and Transfusion of Blood and Blood Products,
Celso Bianco
The Protozoan Parasites-Malaria and Chagas' Disease,
Silvano Wendel
Tickborne Infections,
Ritchard G. Cable and Jonathan Trouern-Trend
Strategies to Reduce Risk
Surveillance for Transfusion-Transmitted Infectious Diseases,
Mary E. Chamberland and Rima F. Khabbaz
Alternatives to Allogeneic Blood and Strategies to Avoid Transfusion,
Lawrence T. Goodnough
Leukoreduction,
Anne B. McDonald and Walter H. Dzik
Viral Inactivation,
Bernard Horowitz and Ehud Ben-Hur
The Role of Quality in Blood Safety,
Lucia M. Berte and David E. Nevalainen
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Risk-Reduction Strategies,
James P. AuBuchon
Red Blood Cell Substitutes,
Zbigniew M. Szczepiorkowski and Christopher P. Stowell
Professional Standards and Voluntary Accreditation,
Jay E. Menitove and Hillary V. Schaeffler
The Role of Federal Regulation in Blood Safety,
Jay S. Epstein and Mary Gustafson
Reviews
"
…an excellent book….should be in the possession of every hematologist and physician with an interest in transfusion of blood.
"-The Bulletin of the Royal College of Pathologists