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Record Nr.

UNISA996205983903316

Autore

Seeber Petra

Titolo

Basics of blood management [[electronic resource] /] / Petra Seeber, Aryeh Shander

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Mass. ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2007

ISBN

1-281-06938-8

9786611069384

0-470-69223-5

0-470-76646-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (402 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ShanderAryeh

Disciplina

616.15

617

Soggetti

Transfusion-free surgery

Blood - Transfusion

Blood banks

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

History and organization of blood management -- Physiology of anemia and oxygen transport -- Anemia therapy I : erythropoiesis stimulating proteins -- Anemia therapy II (hematinics) -- Growth factors -- Fluid therapy -- The chemistry of hemostasis -- Recombinant blood products -- Artificial blood components -- Oxygen therapy -- Preparation of the patient for surgery -- Iatrogenic blood loss -- The physics of hemostasis -- Anesthesia : more than sleeping -- The use of autologous blood -- Cell salvage -- Blood banking -- Transfusions part I : cellular components and plasma -- Transfusions part II : plasma fractions -- Law, ethics, religion, and blood management -- Step-by-step to an organized blood management program.

Sommario/riassunto

Commended in the Haematology category at the British Medical Association Book Awards 2008 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.  A practical and comprehensive text on the new and exciting field of blood manag