Published jointly by AABB and the American Society for Apheresis (ASFA), this Handbook provides a thorough yet succinct account of the most commonly practiced apheresis procedures and indications for their use - including cytapheresis, therapeutic plasma exchange, erythrocytapheresis and selective depletion. This Handbook provides disease-specific content that is of great use to physicians who order or administer such therapies, as well as technical content that assists other health-care personnel who perform the actual procedures. New in this edition: updated with ASFA indication categories from the 2010 special edition of the "Journal of Clinical Apheresis". The introductory chapter provides a handy overview of therapeutic apheresis - principles, physiology, evaluation and management of patients, instrumentation and adverse events. A chapter devoted to special situations involving pediatric patients. It includes more tables and references.
