The most recent addition to the "Physician's Handbook" series, "Perioperative Blood Management" is published jointly by AABB and the Society for the Advancement of Blood Management (SABM). It contains essential information for practitioners who recognize the duty to consider all alternatives in care - both to select transfusion and to avoid transfusion. The broad range of material discusses Jehovah's Witness patients, acute nomovolemic hemodilution, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, artificial oxygen carriers, recombinant Factor VIIa, anemia prevention, and a host of other aspects of this growing field.
