ABC of Transfusion 4th

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CONTENIDO:

1 The Blood Donor: Demographics, Donor Selection and Tests on Donor Blood

2 Supply and Demand for Blood and Blood Components and Stock Management

3 Compatibility Testing Before Transfusion; Blood Ordering and Administration

4 Red Cell Transfusion

5 Platelet and Granulocyte Transfusions

6 Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn and its Prevention

7 Fetal and Neonatal Transfusion

8 Plasma Products and Indications for Their Use

9 Human Albumin Solutions and the Controversy of Crystalloids Versus Colloids 

10 Treatment of Massive Haemorrhage in Surgery and Trauma

11 Immunological Complications of Blood Transfusion

12 Infectious Complications of Blood Transfusion: Bacteria and Parasites

13 Infectious Complications of Blood Transfusion: Viruses

14 Variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease and its Impact on the UK Blood Supply

15 Risks of Transfusion in the Context of Haemovigilance: SHOT – the UK Haemovigilance System

16 Alternatives to Allogeneic Blood Transfusion

17 Blood Substitutes and Oxygen Therapeutics

18 Appropriate Use of Blood and Better Blood Transfusion

19 Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapies

20 Blood Transfusion in a Regulatory Environment and the EU Directives