This reference work discusses the technical and theoretical aspects of all phases of routine blood banking. It has been revised and updated to include issues of current interest, such as transfusion-transmitted diseases, transplantation and biotechnology.
Collection, processing, storage and shipment of blood and tissues -
blood collection, haemapheresis, blood components - preparation, storage and
shipment, transfusion-transmitted viruses, cryopreservation of blood, tissue
banking and organ transplantation; immunologic and genetic principles -
immunohaematology, the antiglobulin test, genetics; blood groups - ABO, H and
P blood groups and structurally related antigen, Rh and LW blood groups,
other blood groups, the HLA system; application of serologic principles of
transfusion practice - pretransfusion testing, identification of unexpected
alloantibodies, investigation of a positive DAT and immune haemolysis;
clinical considerations in transfusion practices - blood transfusion
practice, neonatal and obstetrical transfusion practice, adverse effects of
blood transfusion, autologous transfusion; other considerations - safety,
quality management, records, blood usage review, blood inventory management;
methods - general laboratory, blood grouping and typing, antibody detection
and compatibility testing, alloantibody identification and titration,
elution, immune haemolysis, autoantibodies and drugs, haemolytic disease of
the newborn, HLA typing, infectious disease testing, blood collection
storage, and component preparation, quality control.
