ABSTRACT

This handbook focuses on the fundamentals of clinical transfusion. Specific guidance on the management of different clinical situations is the objective in order to facilitate clinical decision making. This handbook fills a void between the minimal information in general textbooks of medicine, surgery, anesthesiology, etc. and the more detailed tex

chapter 1|3 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|5 pages

Allogeneic Blood Products

chapter 3|5 pages

Autologous Blood Products

chapter 4|2 pages

Epidemiology of Blood Transfusion

chapter 6|3 pages

The ABO and Rhesus Systems

chapter 8|3 pages

The Administration of Blood Products

chapter 15|4 pages

Blood Transfusion in Medicine I Cancer

chapter 24|4 pages

Blood Transfusion in Obstetrics

chapter 25|4 pages

Fetal and Neonatal Transfusion

chapter 27|4 pages

Red Blood Cells: Indications and Dosing

chapter 28|5 pages

Platelets: Indications and Dosing

chapter 30|3 pages

Leukocytes: Indications and Dosage

chapter 31|3 pages

Blood Derivatives: Indications and Dosage

chapter 32|8 pages

Acute Complications of Blood Transfusion

chapter 39|2 pages

Special Blood Product IV: Frozen Blood

chapter 41|2 pages

Blood Transfusion in the 21st Century