Transfusion Medicine

History; the US blood supply system; blood supply systems in other countries; the safety of the US blood supply; medical assessment and screening of blood donors; whole blood collection; production of components by apheresis; laboratory testing of donated blood; preparation, storage and characteristics of blood components; blood groups; laboratory detection of blood groups and pre-transfusion testing; transfusion therapy; transfusion in special situations; techniques of blood transfusion; complications of transfusion - recognition and management; transfusion-transmitted diseases; therapeutic apheresis; use of haematopoietic growth factors in transfusion medicine; blood substitutes.