Essentials of Blood Product Management in Anesthesia Practice

Corey Scher MD Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology New York University School of Medicine Bellevue Hospital Center New York, NY Alan David Kaye MD, PhD Vice-Chancellor of Academic Affairs, Chief Officer, and Provost Tenured Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Neurosciences LSU School of Medicine Shreveport, LA USA Henry Liu MD Professor of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Penn State University College of Medicine Hershey, PA USA Seth Perleman MD Associate Professor of Anesthesiology New York University School of Medicine Langone Medical Center New York University School of Medicine New York, NY USA Sarah Leavitt MD Assistant Professor Department of Anesthesiology NYU Langone Medical Center Bellevue HospitalNew York, NY USA

Chapter 1. The History of Blood Transfusions.- Chapter 2. Modern Blood Banking.- Chapter 3. Blood Component Therapy.- Chapter 4. The Coagulation System and Blood Clot Stability.- Chapter 5. Fibrinolysis, Antifibrinolytic Agents, and Perioperative Considerations.- Chapter 6. Hypercoagulation and Thrombotic Disorders.- Chapter 7. Diseases or Conditions of Platelet Disorders.- Chapter 8. Massive Transfusion Protocol.- Chapter 9. New Biologicals to Assist Clotting.- Chapter 10. Herbal Substances that Affect Hemostasis.- Chapter 11. Ultrasound for Bleeding Disorders.- Chapter 12. Complications of Blood Transfusions.- Chapter 13. Diseases of the Coagulation System: Hemophilia, Von Willebrands Disease, cryoglobulinemia, inborn errors of factor synthesis.- Chapter 14. Blood Conservation Strategies and Bloodless Medicine.- Chapter 15. When Blood is Not an Option.- Chapter 16. Blood Substitutes and Artificial Oxygen Carriers.- Chapter 17. Preoperative Therapy for Anemia.- Chapter 18. Blood Deployment in Natural Disasters and a Military in Conflict.- Chapter 19. Commonly Prescribed Medications that Affect Clotting: A Comprehensive Overview.- Chapter 20. Blood Transfusions in the Severe Trauma Patient.- Chapter 21. Point of Care Tests in for Blood Coagulation in the Perioperative Period.- Chapter 22. Vascular Endothelial Dysfunction and Inflammatory States.- Chapter 23. Obstetrical Blood Management.- Chapter 24. Pediatric Blood Management.- Chapter 25. Blood Management in the Liver Transplant Patient.- Chapter 26. Liberal vs. Conservative Blood Strategies.- Chapter 27.- Chapter 28. Metabolism, Pathophysiology, and Clinical Considerations of Iron Overload, a Comprehensive Review.- Chapter 29. Blood Transfusion Pitfalls.- Chapter 30. Blood and the Traumatic Brain Injury.- Chapter 31. Transfusion Related-Immunomodulation in Relation to Perioperative Infection/Cancer: Biology, Evidence, and Controversy in Transfusion.- Chapter 32. Origins of Blood Products.- Chapter 33. Blood Conservation and Management in Cardiac Surgery.- Chapter 34. Platelet Rich Plasma: Not for Athletes Only.- Chapter 35. Blood Transfusions for Burn Patients.- Chapter 36. Pre-hospital Transfusions by First Providers.- Chapter 37. Whole Blood is Back.- Chapter 38. Normal Saline: Not So Normal at All in the Bleeding Patient.- Chapter 39. Blood Management for the Geriatric Patient.- Chapter 40. Substance Abuse and Coagulopathy.- Chapter 41. The Effects of Perioperative Transfusion of Allogenic Blood Products of Cancer Recurrence.- Chapter 42. Perioperative Management of Polycythemia.- Chapter 43. Blood Management in the Premature Neonate.- Chapter 44. Coagulation and Regional Anesthesia - Chrissy Cherenfant and Uchenna Umeh.- Chapter 45. Iron Overload.- Chapter 46. Blood Product Management in Developing Countries.- Chapter 47. Considerations and Guidelines for use of Anticoagulants and Antithrombotics in Patients Undergoing Interventional Pain Management.- Chapter 48. The Red Blood Cell Storage Lesion: A Controversy of Biology versus Randomized Controlled Trials.