Technical manual /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	American Assocation of Blood Banks
Other Authors:	Fung, Mark K., Grossman, Brenda J., Hillyer, Christopher D., Westhoff, Connie M.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Bethesda, Md. : American Association of Blood Banks, 2014.
Edition:	Eighteenth edition.
Subjects:	Blood Banks. Laboratory Manuals. Blood banks. Blood banks > Quality control. Blood banks > Handbooks, manuals, etc. Blood > Collection and preservation. Blood > Transfusion > Handbooks, manuals, etc. Blood > Transportation.

Table of Contents:

[pt. 1] Quality issues
Quality management systems: theory and practice
Facilities, work environment, and safety
Regulatory issues in blood banking
Disaster management
[pt. 2] Blood donation and collection
Allogeneic and autologous blood donor selection
Whole-blood collection and component processiong
Blood component collection by apheresis
Infectious disease screening
Hospital storage, monitoring, pretransfusion processing, distribution, and inventory management of blood components
[pt. 3] Blood groups
Molecular biology and immunology in transfusion medicine
Blood group genetics
ABO, H, and Lewis blood groups and structurally related antigens
The Rh system
Other blood group systems and antigens
[pt. 4] Antigen and antibody testing
Pretransfusion testing
Identification of antibodies to red cell antigens
The positive direct antiglobulin test and immune-mediated hemolysis
Platelet and granulocyte antigens and antibodies - The HLA system
[pt. 5] Clinical considerations in transfusion practice
Hemotherapy decisions and their outcomes
Administration of blood components
Perinatal issues in transfusion practice
Neonatal and pediatric transfusion practice
Patient blood management
Transfusion support for hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients
Therapeutic apheresis
Noninfectious complications of blood transfusion
Approaches to blood utilization auditing
[pt. 6] Transplantation
The collection and processing of hematopoietic stem cells
Umbilical cord blood banking
Tissue-derived non-hematopoietic stem cell sources for use in cell-based therapies
Human allografts and the hospital transfusion service
Blood and marrow-derived nonhematopoietic stem cell sources and immune cells for clinical applications.