Modern Blood Banking & Transfusion Practices - 9780803626829

Harmening (clinical laboratory management and medical laboratory science, Rush U.) provides future medical technologists, blood bank specialists, and residents with a textbook on transfusion practices and immunohematology. The 28 chapters are contributed by laboratory medicine, pathology, transfusion medicine, and other specialists from the US. This edition has been reorganized around sections on fundamental concepts; blood groups and serologic testing, including detection and identification of antibodies and pretransfusion testing; transfusion practice, with chapters on donor screening, component preparation, transfusion therapy, reactions, and apheresis, and discussion of hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn, autoimmune hemolytic anemias, and transfusion-transmitted diseases; leukocyte antigens and relationship testing; quality and compliance issues, with discussion of quality management, safety and federal regulatory requirements, laboratory information systems, and legal and ethical issues; and future trends. It adds new chapters on cellular therapy, utilization management, and tissue banking. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)