Blood Management: Options for Better Patient Care

Description

The source material this text shares with Perioperative Blood Management: A Physician’s Handbook (also published by AABB and SABM) is matched by an equal amount of expanded and new material too detailed for a handbook format. Among the 18 chapters from more than 30 expert authors are some topics rarely addressed in the literature as they relate to blood management: quality, business plan development (including a sample plan) and pediatric surgery, to name a few. This book will prove to be an essential and accessible reference for the surgical team, including surgeons, anesthesiologists, perfusionists, transfusion specialists, clinicians and nurses.

Highlights include the following:

• Program development
• Quality systems
• Economics of blood management
• Preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative techniques
• Pretransfusion testing
• Preoperative optimization
• Transfusion decision making
• Blood sequestration
• Point-of-care testing
• Topical hemostatics and fibrin sealants
• Ancillary techniques
• The cancer patient
• Special surgical settings, including liver, obstetric, pediatric, and cardiac surgery

(AABB, 2008, soft cover, 441 pages, ISBN# 978-1-56395-253-1)