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Transfusion-free medicine and surgery /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Jabbour, Nicolas
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
Subjects:
Transfusion-free surgery.
Blood > Transfusion > Complications.
Blood > Transfusion > Law and legislation.
Blood substitutes > Therapeutic use.
Blood > Collection and preservation.
Blood Substitutes > therapeutic use.
Blood Loss, Surgical > prevention & control.
Blood Transfusion > adverse effects.
Table of Contents:
  • Legal and administrative issues related to transfusion-free medicine and surgery
  • Transfusion therapy : balancing the risks and benefits
  • Preoperative management and preparation for transfusion-free surgery
  • Intraoperative strategies for transfusion-free surgery
  • Current view of the coagulation system
  • The physiology of anaemia and the threshold for blood transfusion
  • Postoperative management in transfusion-free medicine and surgery in the ICU
  • Anemia and blood conservation in the critically ill patient
  • Feasibility of transfusion-free medicine and surgery in clinical practice
  • The changing transfusion practice of neonatal and pediatric surgery
  • The cost of blood product transfusion
  • Oxygen therapeutics : the quest for artificial blood
  • Basic principles of bloodless medicine and surgery.