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Practical Transfusion Medicine, a 2010 winner of the British Medical Association Medical Book Awards, is written in a friendly, accessible, concise and easy style intended to provide a comprehensive view of all aspects of transfusion medicine and allied fields. The chapters are written by practicing clinicians, researchers and healthcare professionals who procure, produce and test blood components, cells and tissues and by those who use them and have to trace them to their final destinations. The authorship of this book is international, with the majority of contributors hailing from England and Scotland. The reader will note a discussion of clinical practices and regulatory issues in these countries in many of the chapters, and will also note the British spelling of many words.

Chapters included in Section A:

Part 1: Basic Principles of Immunohematology

• Essential Immunology for Transfusion Medicine
• Human Blood Group Systems
• Human Leucocyte Antigens

Part 2: Complications of Transfusion

• Investigation of Acute Transfusion Reactions
• Hemolytic Transfusion Reactions
• Febrile and Allergic Transfusion Reactions
• Transfusion-Related Acute Lung Injury
• Transfusion-Related Immunomodulation
• Transfusion-Associated Graft-Versus-Host Disease and Microchimerism
• Post-Transfusion Purpura
• Transfusion-Transmitted Infections
• Bacterial Contamination
• Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Chapters included in Section B:

Part 3: Practice in Blood Centers and Hospitals

• Emerging Infections and Transfusion Safety
• Regulatory Aspects of Blood Transfusion
• The Role of Hemovigilance in Transfusion Safety
• Donors and Blood Collection
• Blood Donation Testing and the Safety of the Blood Supply
• Production and Storage of Blood Components
• Medicolegal Aspects of Transfusion Practice
• Blood Transfusions in Hospitals
• Blood Transfusion in a Global Context

Part 4: Clinical Transfusion Practice

• Good Blood Management: the Effective and Safe Use of Blood Components
• Prenatal and Childhood Transfusions
• Hematological Disease
• Blood Transfusion in the Management of Patients with Hemoglobinopathies
• Massive Blood Loss
• Inherited and Acquired Coagulation Disorders

Chapters included in Section C:

Part 4, continued:

• Recombinant Proteins in Diagnosis and Therapy
• Immunodeficiency and Immunoglobulin Therapy

Part 5: Alternatives to Transfusion

• The Principles of Bloodless Medicine and Surgery
• Autologous Transfusion
• Blood Substitutes
• Pharmacological Agents and Recombinant Factor VIIa

Part 6: Cellular and Tissues Therapy and Organ Transplantation

• Regulation and Accreditation in Cellular Therapy
• Stem Cell Collection and Therapeutic Apheresis
• Hemopoietic Stem Cell Processing and Storage
• Hemopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
• Cord Blood Transplantation
• Recent Advances in Clinical Cellular Immunotherapy
• Cytokines in Transfusion Practice
• Tissue Banking
• Transfusion Strategies in Organ Transplant Patients

The book is recommended for those already involved in blood services and transfusion medicine as well as those entering the field and who have to make important decisions about patient care. The book should prove to be a valuable resource to medical technologists working in the immunohematology/blood bank laboratory, as well as to those in other areas of the laboratory who wish to learn more about transfusion medicine.