The Transfusion Committee: Putting Patient Safety First, 3rd edition – Digital

Product Code: 242075DB

Edited by Amy E. Schmidt, MD, PhD

Is your facility struggling to review blood usage without a transfusion committee, blood utilization review committee, or similar group? This book will help you recognize the importance of a transfusion review committee in the evolution toward a patient blood management environment.

Building on the solid foundation of the popular previous editions, this revision adds new material throughout, as well as several new chapters. Designed to help community-based hospitals start and/or improve their transfusion committee and patient blood management programs, this book also includes useful templates and forms.

Topics include:

Committee justification, organization, and function.
Clinical practice guidelines.
Regulatory agencies and accrediting organizations.
Multidisciplinary and blood center participation.
Quality tools for the committee.
Patient blood management.
Blood utilization review.
Transfusion reaction oversight.
Use of allogeneic blood products and blood conservation measures to minimize blood loss (new).
Bloodless medicine (new).
Implementation, management, and administrative aspects (new).
Committee functions and role in other countries (new).
Pediatrics (new).