Alternatives to blood transfusion in transfusion medicine

The book is edited by a multidisciplinary global team consisting of a transfusion specialist, an anaesthetist and an intensive care specialist to ensure broad focus. It consists of nine major sections, covering all the important clinical aspects of transfusion alternatives to transfusion medicine. There is a major emphasis of the treatment options available to bloodless medicine and surgery centers including the following: argon beam (coagulates the patient's blood at the bleeding site during surgery); cell saver (continually cleans and recirculates the patient's own blood during surgical procedures); electro-cautery (uses heat to stop vessels from bleeding; harmonic scalpel (uses mechanical energy to coagulate and transect tissue); haemodilution (dilution of blood within a circuit that is constantly linked to the patient's circulatory system); synthetic erythropoietin (stimulates bone marrow to produce enough red blood cells to eliminate the need for transfusion). The book is endorsed by the Network for Advancement of Transfusion Alternatives (NATA). The society is uniquelypositioned to be the driving force for this new international edition and hasassembled all the leading people in the field to contribute.

• ISBN: 978-1-4051-6321-7
• Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 592
• Fecha Publicación: 23/07/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés