Blood Transfusion Therapy: A Physician's Handbook (AABB, Blood Transfusion Therapy)

Blood Transfusion Therapy: A Physician s Handbook has been thoroughly reviewed and revised to reflect state-of-the-art transfusion medicine practices. The book is intended to serve as a convenient reference for issues relating to transfusion medicine.

Featured in this edition:

Comprehensive review of blood component therapy.
Expanded discussion of plasma derivatives including factor concentrates and Rh Immune Globulin.
Revised obstetric, neonatal and pediatric transfusion practices with review of hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn, intrauterine transfusion, exchange transfusion, and transfusion of preterm/neonatal infants and children.
Detailed discussion on diagnosis and treatment of von Willebrand disease, hemophilia A, hemophilia B, and on specific coagulation factor inhibitors.
Discussion on acquired bleeding conditions including vitamin K antagonism, dilutional coagulopathy, and liver disease.
Expanded discussion on the use of medications to reverse vitamin K antagonists, and for use of prohemostatic agents such as DDAVP, antifibrinolytic drugs, and recombinant Factor VIIa.
Review of hematopoietic progenitor cell therapy.
Updated apheresis indication lists based on the most recent ASFA guidelines