About Book
This e book is designed to furnish the clinical technologist, blood financial institution specialist, and resident with a concise and thorough information to transfusion practices and immuno-hematology.
This text, a best “crossmatch” of concept and practice, affords the reader with a working knowledge of modern-day movements blood banking. Forty contributors from throughout the use of a have shared their expertise and know-how in 27 complete chapters.
Over five hundred illustrations and tables facilitate the comprehension of difficult principles now not mechanically illustrated in different texts. In addition, color plates grant a skill for standardizing the analyzing of agglutination reactions and illustrating com-plex material.
Several aspects of this textbook provide brilliant enchantment to college students and educators. There are outlines and academic goals at the commencing of every chapter as nicely as every chapter ends with case histories and find out about information questions.
A massive and handy word list is supplied for convenient get right of entry to definitions of blood financial institution terms. A blood team antibody attribute chart is furnished on the interior cowl of the e book to resource in retention of the significant quantity of statistics and to serve as a convenient get right of entry to and information to the traits of the blood team systems.
Summary charts at the give up of every chapter perceive for college students the most vital statistics to comprehend for scientific rotations. Original complete step by way of step illustrations of ABO ahead and reverse grouping, now not located in any different book, assist the scholar to rapidly grasp this necessary testing, which represents the basis of blood banking.
The introduction to the historical factors of blood transfusion and protection is a prelude to the fundamental standards of genetics, blood team immunology, molecular biology, and modern-day overview of blood team systems.
The subsequent part of the e book focuses on hobbies blood financial institution practices, along with donor selection, factor preparation, detection and identification of antibodies, compatibility testing, transfusion therapy, and apheresis.
A chapter on transfusion security and federal policies clarifies the required exceptional assurance and inspection procedures. New to the fifth version is Chapter 4, Concepts in Molecular Biology, which intro-duces the scholar to nucleic acid methods and idea that govern molecular genetics in figuring out compatibility between donor and recipient, manufacturing of recombinant proteins such as increase elements utilized in positive apheresis procedures, and detection of transfusion-trans-mitted viruses in transfusion medicine.
Certain medical conditions that are in particular applicable to blood banking are mentioned in detail, consisting of transfusion reactions, hemolytic sickness of the newborn, autoimmune and drug-induced hemolytic anemia, transfusion-transmitted viruses, human leukocyte antigens, and paternity testing.
Chapter 26, Informational Systems in the Blood Bank, helps put together blood bankers for the duty of operating and retaining a blood financial institution data system. Unique to this e book is Chapter 27, Medicolegal and Ethical Aspects of Providing Blood Collection and Transfusion Services.
This e book is a fruit of the top-notch efforts of a range of devoted authorities who participated in this mission by means of donating their time and knowledge due to the fact they care about the blood financial institution profession.
The book’s intention is to foster accelerated affected person care by way of presenting the reader with a simple perception of the feature of blood, the involvement of blood crew antigens and anti-bodies, the concepts of transfusion therapy, and the unfavorable outcomes of blood transfusion.
It has been designed to generate an unquenchable thirst for information in all medical technologists, blood bankers, and practitioners, whose education, knowledge, and capabilities grant the public with tremendous fitness care.
