Technical manual / edited by Mark K. Fung, MD, PhD, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, VT, Brenda J. Grossman, MD, MPH, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, Christopher D. Hillyer, MD, New York Blood Center, New York, NY, Connie M. Westhoff, PhD, SBB, New York Blood Center, New York, NY.

Format Book
Edition18th ed.
Publication InfoBethesda, Md. : American Association of Blood Banks, 2014.
Descriptionxxiv, 840 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm + USB flash card
Subjects

Other author/creatorFung, Mark K.
Other author/creatorGrossman, Brenda J.
Other author/creatorHillyer, Christopher D.
Other author/creatorWesthoff, Connie M.
Other author/creatorAmerican Assocation of Blood Banks.
Running title AABB technical manual
Contents [pt. 1] Quality issues -- Quality management systems : theory and practice -- Facilities, work environment, and safety -- Regulatory issues in blood banking -- Disaster management -- [pt. 2] Blood donation and collection -- Allogeneic and autologous blood donor selection -- Whole-blood collection and component processiong -- Blood component collection by apheresis -- Infectious disease screening -- Hospital storage, monitoring, pretransfusion processing, distribution, and inventory management of blood components -- [pt. 3] Blood groups -- Molecular biology and immunology in transfusion medicine -- Blood group genetics -- ABO, H, and Lewis blood groups and structurally related antigens -- The Rh system -- Other blood group systems and antigens -- [pt. 4] Antigen and antibody testing -- Pretransfusion testing -- Identification of antibodies to red cell antigens -- The positive direct antiglobulin test and immune-mediated hemolysis -- Platelet and granulocyte antigens and antibodies - The HLA system -- [pt. 5] Clinical considerations in transfusion practice -- Hemotherapy decisions and their outcomes -- Administration of blood components -- Perinatal issues in transfusion practice -- Neonatal and pediatric transfusion practice -- Patient blood management -- Transfusion support for hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients -- Therapeutic apheresis -- Noninfectious complications of blood transfusion -- Approaches to blood utilization auditing -- [pt. 6] Transplantation -- The collection and processing of hematopoietic stem cells -- Umbilical cord blood banking -- Tissue-derived non-hematopoietic stem cell sources for use in cell-based therapies -- Human allografts and the hospital transfusion service -- Blood and marrow-derived nonhematopoietic stem cell sources and immune cells for clinical applications.
General noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN1563958880
ISBN9781563958885

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