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Basics of blood management

Title
Basics of blood management / Petra Seeber, Aryeh Shander.
Author
Seeber, Petra.
Publication
Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007.

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Shander, Aryeh.
Description
ix, 389 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
Summary
"This unique and practical book introduces the reader to the concept of blood management and explains how to improve patient outcomes by avoiding undue blood loss, enhancing the patient's own blood, effective management of anemia and coagulopathy. Basics of Blood Management is the first book dedicated to blood management, a multidisciplinary and multimodality concept that focuses on patient outcome." "Whether you are an early practising clinician in hematology, transfusion, critical care, anesthesiology, surgery or internal medicine, a nursing specialist, trainee or other member of the multidisciplinary blood management team, this book will answer all your questions about blood management as an aid in improving patient outcome."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. History and organization of blood management -- 2. Physiology of anemia and oxygen transport -- 3. Anemia therapy I : erythropoiesis stimulating proteins -- 4. Anemia therapy II (hematinics) -- 5. Growth factors -- 6. Fluid therapy -- 7. The chemistry of hemostasis -- 8. Recombinant blood products -- 9. Artificial blood components -- 10. Oxygen therapy -- 11. Preparation of the patient for surgery -- 12. Iatrogenic blood loss -- 13. The physics of hemostasis -- 14. Anesthesia - more than sleeping -- 15. The use of autologous blood -- 16. Cell salvage -- 17. Blood banking -- 18. Transfusions, part I : cellular components and plasma -- 19. Transfusions, part II : plasma fractions -- 20. Law, ethics, religion, and blood management -- 21. Step by step to an organized blood management program.
ISBN
  • 1405151315
  • 9781405151313
LCCN
2007005030
OCLC
  • ocm82472923
  • 82472923
  • SCSB-5351026
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries