Product Code: 243090
ISBN: 978-1-56395-490-0
Editor-In-Chief: Quentin Eichbaum, MD, PhD, MPH, MFA, MMHC, MMEd, FACP, FASCP
Section Editors: Claire L. Barrett, MBChB, PG Dip (Transfusion Medicine), MMed, FCP(SA); Mohammed Farouk, MD, MBA; Nanci L. Fredrich, RN, BSN, MM; Susan T. Johnson, MSTM, MLS(ASCP)SBBCM; Vernon J. Louw, MBChB, MMed, PhD; Faten Moftah, MD; Scarpa Schoeman, MD, MMEd, PhD, FHEA (UK); Cees Th. Smit Sibinga, MD, PhD, FRCP Edin, FRCPath; Jean Stanley, MBA, MLS(ASCP)SBB, CMQ/OE(ASQ)
The gaps in transfusion medicine education and training affect clinical outcomes and patient survival. One cannot assume that adequate and safe blood transfusion will seamlessly "happen" in health-care delivery unless we pay deliberate attention to how we educate and train health-care professionals, and how we staff our facilities.
Laboratories in low-, middle-, and high-income countries suffer from persistent resource limitations of one kind or another—medical technologists, equipment, work environments, and career structures—all of which ultimately affect the quality and accuracy of test results. Without quality-assured test results, clinicians are compelled to resort to presumptive diagnoses, which can be suboptimal.
The intended audience for this book is physicians, students, clinical trainees, nurses, medical technologists, transfusion safety officers, phlebotomists, and blood administrators. It should be of particular value to transfusionists actively engaged in teaching as well as for self-directed learners.
This book is a collaborative project from members of the AABB Global Transfusion Forum as well as outside reviewers who provided objective critiques. It is intended to be a valued resource for transfusionists around the world.
PRINT EDITION: AABB, 2024, 433 pages, ISBN 978-1-56395-490-0
Product Code: 243090
AABB Member Price: $58
Nonmember Price: $75
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