Product Description
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.
From the Back Cover
Clinical blood transfusion has becomes so advanced that it is now a speciality in its own right.
The ABC of Transfusion is a comprehensive guide that covers all practical aspects of transfusion and provides full background knowledge to all those in the medical profession who use blood.
This third edition has been fully updated, and contains completely rewritten and new sections on:
- Autologous transfusion
- Infectious complications of transfusion
- Technological advances
- Transfusion therapy
- Variant CJD.
Written by recognized experts, it covers aspect from blood donation to the various complications that arise from transfusions. Useful as a practical guide, a refresher or for quick reference, it covers all essential transfusion matters.