Quick Guide to Transfusion Medicine, Second Ed.

This new edition of the Quick Guide to Transfusion Medicine gives you expert-level knowledge in the palm of your hand. Within the Guide, you will learn about transfusion medicine from beginning to end. It covers donor blood collection and testing, product composition, indications and administration of blood components, and recognition and treatment of transfusion reactions. Also covered is transfusion in special circumstances, such as sickle cell disease, massive transfusion, intrauterine transfusion, IgA deficiency, and autoimmune hemolytic anemia. Additionally, in this edition, we have expanded our focus to include quality/safety initiatives, novel anticoagulant usage/reversal, and transfusion issues in hematopoietic progenitor cell transplant recipients. Therapeutic apheresis indications have also been updated.

This pocket-sized guide, with its practical organization and accessible content, will improve your ability to manage patients requiring blood products and expand your understanding of the complex field of transfusion medicine.