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.
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
Appendix A: Detailed information
Appendix B: Sources of information for blood management
Appendix C: Program tools and forms
Appendix D: Teaching aids: research and projects
Appendix E: Address book
Index



A practical and comprehensive text on the new and exciting field of blood management


Takes an international perspective, covering conditions encountered in developing and industrial countries
Covers all areas of organization, methods and tools
Gives the reader an understanding of the concept and philosophy of blood management
Provides clinical scenarios and exercises that help the reader to adapt information for their location

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.