Perioperative Transfusion Medicine

Thoroughly updated for its Second Edition, this volume is the most
comprehensive,
current reference on perioperative transfusion medicine and
coagulation. It provides
complete information on all current blood products and transfusion
risks, transfusion
and coagulation issues during the preoperative, intraoperative, and
postoperative periods,
and specific concerns in each surgical subspecialty. Eighteen new
chapters in this edition
cover blood shortages, economic concerns, emergency needs, virus
transmission, parasitic
and septic risks, immunosuppression risks, non-infectious risks,
production and storage
issues, hemoglobin-based oxygen-carrying solutions, perfluorocarbon-
based oxygen-carrying
solutions, preoperative plateletphoresis, volume resuscitation,
antifibrinolytics,
aprotinin, DDAVP, platelet inhibitors, burn patients, and post-
surgical stress response