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

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).

PRINT EDITION: AABB, 2025, 256 pages, ISBN 978-1-56395-509-9

Product Code: 242075
AABB Member Price: $115
Nonmember Price: $145

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