Clinical Transfusion Medicine

Joseph D. Sweeney M.D. The Miriam and Roger Williams Hospitals Brown University School of Medicine, Rhode Island. Yvonne Rizk M.D. Women and Infants Hospital, Rhode Island.

Section A: General 1. Introduction 2. Allogeneic Blood Products 3. Autologous Blood Products 4. Epidemiology of Blood Transfusion 5. Informed Consent and Explanation of Blood Options 6. The ABO and Rhesus System 7. Compatibility Testing and the Importance of Proper Recipient Identification 8. The Administration of Blood Products Section B: Surgery 9. Blood Transfusion in Surgery I: Ordering Practices and Transfusion Styles 10. Blood Transfusion in Surgery II: Cardiac and Vascular Surgery 11. Blood Transfusion in Surgery III: Orthopedic and Urologie Surgery 12. Blood Transfusion in Surgery IV: Blood Transfusion in Solid Organ Allografts 13. Blood Transfusion in Surgery V: General Surgery 14. Blood Transfusion in Surgery VI: Trauma and Massive Blood Transfusion Section C: Medicine 15. Blood Transfusion in Medicine I: Cancer 16. Blood Transfusion in Medicine II: Bone Marrow Transplantation 17. Blood Transfusion in Medicine III: Hereditary Anemias 18. Blood Transfusion in Medicine: IV: Renal Disease 19. Blood Transfusion in Medicine V: Patients with Acute Gastrointestinal Bleeding 20. Blood Transfusion in Medicine VI: Patients Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus 21. Blood Transfusion in Medicine VII: Hereditary and Acquired Bleeding Disorders 22. Blood Transfusion in Medicine VII: Autoantibodies to Red Cells and Platelets 23. Blood Transfusion in Medicine IX: Using Drugs to Reduce Blood Transfusion 24. Blood Transfusion in Obstetrics 25. Fetal and Neonatal Transfusion Section D: Appropriate Prescribing 26. Clinical Decisions and Response Monitoring: Triggers, Targets, Functional Reserve and Threshold of Effect 27. Red Blood Cells: Indications and Dosing 28. Platelets: Indications and Dosing 29. Plasma and Cryoprecipitate: Indications and Dosing 30. Leukocytes, Indications and Dosage 31. Blood Derivatives: Indications and Dosage Section E: Complications 32. Acute Complications of Blood Transfusion 33. Delayed and Late Complications of Blood Transfusion 34. Blood Transfusion Transmitted Infections I: Viruses. Viruses 35. Blood Transfusion Transmitted Infections II: Bacteria, Protozoa, Helminths and Prions Section F: Special Products 36. Special Blood Product I: Leukoreduced and Washed Blood Products 37. Special Blood Products II: Irradiated Blood Products and Transfusion Associated Graft Versus Host Disease 38. Special Blood Products III: Cytomegalic Virus Low Risk Blood Products and the Prevention of Primary CMV Disease 39. Special Blood Product IV: Frozen Blood 40. Special Blood Products V: Therapeutic Phlebotomy, Apheresis and Photopheresis 41. Blood Transfusion in the 21st Century