Transfusion-free medicine and surgery
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edited by Nicolas Jabbour.
(2nd ed.)
--Chichester, West Sussex, UK:
Wiley-Blackwell
, c2014.
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This book aims to be a guide to the practice of blood conservation. The first chapter discusses the legal and administrative aspects of bloodless medicine describing the legal principles and practical issues relatd to refusal of transfusion. The second is on balancing the risks and benefits of transfusion includes clinical vignettes of appropriate and inappropriate transfusion. The remainder of the book covers the principles and practice of bloodless medicine, including a chapter on the scient…
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- Other Authors
- Jabbour, Nicolas
- Responsibility
- edited by Nicolas Jabbour
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication
- Chichester, West Sussex, UK
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Date of Publication
- c2014
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource, 376 p.
- ISBN
- 9781118554692 (electronic bk.)
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Bloodless Medical and Surgical Procedures
- Blood Substitutes - therapeutic use
- Transfusion-free surgery
- Blood - Transfusion - Complications
- Blood - Transfusion - Law and legislation
- Blood substitutes - Therapeutic use
- Abstract
- This book aims to be a guide to the practice of blood conservation. The first chapter discusses the legal and administrative aspects of bloodless medicine describing the legal principles and practical issues relatd to refusal of transfusion. The second is on balancing the risks and benefits of transfusion includes clinical vignettes of appropriate and inappropriate transfusion. The remainder of the book covers the principles and practice of bloodless medicine, including a chapter on the scientific issues of haemostasis and the investigation of bleeding idsorders. The book concludes with chapters on blood conservation in neonatal and paediatric surgery, the costs associated with blood transfusion and the quest for artifical blood. New chapters will be included to address blood utilization in oncology and geriatric patients.
- Contents
- History of blood transfusion / Shannon L. Farmer, James Isbister, Michael F. Leahy -- The ethical complexities of transfusion-free medicine, surgery and research / Katrina A. Bramstedt -- Transfusion therapy -- balancing the risks and benefits / Irina Maramica, Ira A. Shulman -- The physiology of anemia and the threshold for blood transfusion / Senthil G. Krishna, Ahsan Syed, Jason Bryant, Joseph D. Tobias -- Blood transfusion in surgery / Sharad Sharma, Lance W Griffin, Nicolas Jabbour -- Current view of coagulation system / Yoogoo Kang, Elia Elia -- Topical hemostatic agents / Fabrizio Di Benedetto, Giuseppe Tarantino -- Intraoperative strategies for transfusion-free medicine / Joseph D. Tobias -- Post-operative management in transfusion-free medicine and surgery in the ICU / Jean-Louis Vincent -- The changing transfusion practice of neonatal and pediatric surgery / Pamela J. Kling and Nicolas Jabbour -- Current management of anemia in oncology / Shelly Sharma, Sharad Sharma -- Artificial blood / Aryeh Shander, Mazyar Javidroozi, Seth Perelman -- Translational strategies to minimize transfusion requirement in liver surgery and transplantation: targeting ischemia-reperfusion injury / Reza F. Saidi, S. Kamran Hejazi Kenari -- Legal and administrative issues related to transfusion-free medicine and surgery programs / Randy Henderson, Nicolas Jabbour -- Basic principles of bloodless medicine and surgery / Nicolas Jabbour.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
