Product Code: 252130
Among the potential adverse effects of blood transfusion, the noninfectious risks far outweigh the infectious risks. Reactions vary widely in severity and symptomology, appearing from minutes to weeks after starting the procedure. This bundle brings together Transfusion Reactions, 5th edition and the AABB Guide to the Laboratory Evaluation of Transfusion Reactions.
Transfusion Reactions, for years a trusted AABB reference, has been updated by editor Patricia M. Kopko, MD, and a team of expert authors consulting the latest scientific literature on adverse reactions to transfusion, common and uncommon. Aspects of each complication are examined, such as clinical presentation, epidemiology, risk factors, morbidity, mortality, pathophysiology, differential diagnosis, and/or others. With a scope that is comprehensive, the book offers subtopics and tabular material that provide easy access to critical information for clinical providers at all levels, as well as laboratory staff, involved in the care of transfusion recipients. Important features include:
Thirteen other chapters cover reactions by type of reaction, procedure, or product used.
The AABB Guide to the Laboratory Evaluation of Transfusion Reactions has a narrower focus but is no less valuable a resource. The evaluation and diagnosis of a suspected transfusion reaction is a matter of clinical judgment by a physician trained in adverse effects of transfusion. Negative testing results do not always exclude a reaction if there is strong suspicion that the patient’s symptoms are related to blood transfusion. The laboratory evaluation of these events is critical not only for the patient’s health, but also for corrective and preventive actions that are part of process improvement.
This Guide, updated by Wen Lu, MD; Peter R. Pelletier, MD; Kathleen Puca, MD; Glenn Ramsey, MD; and NurJehan Quraishy, MD for the Transfusion Medicine Section, addresses the following:
The Guide also includes an extremely useful Appendix summarizing common acute and delayed transfusion reactions with their associated primary symptoms, additional symptoms, usual timing of onset, initial laboratory evaluation, and confirmatory/supplemental evaluations.
PRINT EDITION: AABB Press, 2021, 732 pages, ISBN 978-1-56395-413-9 | AABB, 2021, 57 pages, ISBN 978-1-56395-421-4
Product Code: 252130
AABB Member Price: $160
Nonmember Price: $210
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