Transfusion Medicine [Paperback]

Jeffrey McCullough (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1997 | ISBN-10: 0070451133 | ISBN-13: 978-0070451131 | Edition: 1

Presents a practical approach to the diagnosis and management of the most common disorders of red blood cells, white blood cells, and hemostasis. Each disease state is discussed in terms of underlying pathophysiology, clinical features which suggest the diagnosis, the use of state-of-the-art lab tests in the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of the condition, and current management.

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Transfusion Medicine offers a concise, clinically focused and practical approach to this important area of medicine.

This well-known handbook presents the experience of a world leader in the field of blood banking and transfusion therapy. Transfusion Medicine offers complete guidance on the full range of topics from donor recruitment, blood collection and storage, to testing and transfusing blood components, complications and transmissible diseases, as well as cellular engineering, therapeutic apheresis, and the role of hematopoietic growth factors.

This third edition includes updated information on a number of areas including:

• Current debate on clinical effects of stored red blood cells
• Emerging infectious diseases and impact on blood safety
• New concepts of massive transfusion
• Global blood supply
• Platelet transfusion
• Pathogen inactivation

Transfusion Medicine will be valuable to all those working in the field of blood banking and transfusion. It is a good introduction to transfusion for hematology or oncology fellows and technologists specialising in blood banking. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Jeffrey McCullough, Professor, Director, Division of Laboratory Medicine, Section of Transfusion Medicine University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (December 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070451133
• ISBN-13: 978-0070451131
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,906,155 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Outstanding Review of Transfusion Medicine!, April 26, 2001

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Jeffrey L. Winters, M.D. (Lexington, Kentucky United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Transfusion Medicine (Paperback)

This book is a clear and concise review of the major, and in some cases not so major, areas of transfusion medicine. It is well written with a very clear style. The content coverage is superb and the appropriate references are given allowing one to track concepts back to their source.

Other books offer more in-depth review of the individual topics discussed but this book does the best job of evenly covering the major topics at a level appropriate for residents, fellows, and physicians interested in transfusion medicine. This book should be required introductory reading for all clinical pathology residents.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really, Really, REALLY Good!, March 22, 2005

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D. J. Chaffin "joechaffin" (Greeley, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Transfusion Medicine, 2e (Paperback)

This book, like the first edition, is a truly excellent review of basic concepts in Transfusion Medicine, with enough advanced concepts and details to satisfy pathology residents studying for board exams. Dr. McCullough has gone out of his way to produce a book that is as current as can be, reads easily, and is just plain stuffed full of practical and theoretical information! An added bonus is that since Dr. McCullough (a former editor of the journal TRANSFUSION) authored all but one of the chapters, the book does not suffer from the uneven writing that damages too many Blood Banking books. He is a terrific writer, and this is an outstanding book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book--should be required reading, August 23, 2007

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This review is from: Transfusion Medicine, 2e (Paperback)

There is an enormous amount of info packed into this relatively small and easy to read paperback!!! Now in its second edition (fortunate, because my first edition text is pretty well worn from use & study), this book gets slightly larger but still should be required reading for any path resident while on the TransMed service----you can easily get through it in a month. I also found it a fantastic resource when studying for transmed boards (although that's been a numer of years ago for me). At the time, I'm pretty sure Dr. McCullough wrote many of the boards questions!!! hint, hint Now that I am in practice as a general pathologist, I still occasionally turn to this little book! BUY IT!