Clinical Laboratory Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine Practices, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (September 15, 2020) © 2021
  • Gretchen Johns
  • William Zundel
  • Elizabeth Gockel-Blessing
  • Lisa Denesiuk

Title overview

For courses in blood banking, immunohematology and transfusion.

All the content students need to succeed in a transfusion medicine laboratory

Clinical Laboratory Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine provides readers with the didactic foundation, background and tools to successfully function in a typical transfusion medicine laboratory. A blend of theoretical and practical information helps learners synthesize information and, ultimately, answer questions and solve problems. A running case study illuminates real-world applications and relevance.

Hallmark features of this title

Setting the stage for each chapter

  • A running case study introduces each chapter and includes questions. Subsequent installments of the case study are seen throughout chapters.
  • What's Ahead? is the title of each chapter's introduction. It consists of a paragraph and a series of questions. Answers are covered in the chapter.

Self-assessment opportunities

  • Checkpoint questions throughout chapters let students check their understanding as they go.
  • Review questions for each chapter are tied to a chapter learning objective.

Learning aids

  • Chapter-starting and -ending features include a content outline, learning objectives, and key terms and phrases (start of chapters) and a review of main points (end of chapters).
  • Tables, figures and boxes are scattered throughout chapters.

Table of contents

  1. The Immune Process: The Origin and Interaction Between Antigens and Antibodies
  2. Immunogenetics: The Origin of Antigens
  3. Blood Bank Applications of Antigen--Antibody Reactions
  4. ABO and Hh Blood Group Systems
  5. Rh, RHAG, and LW Blood Group Systems
  6. Other Blood Group Systems
  7. Pretransfusion and Compatibility Testing
  8. Identification of Unexpected Antibodies
  9. Donor Selection, Phlebotomy, and Required Testing
  10. Blood Products: Preparation, Storage, and Shipment of Blood Components
  11. Component Therapy and Massive Transfusion
  12. Adverse Reactions to Transfusion
  13. Transfusion--Transmitted Infections
  14. Perinatal and Neonatal Transfusion Issues
  15. Autoimmune and Drug-Induced Immune Hemolytic Anemias
  16. Platelet Refractory Patients
  17. Transfusion Support of Selected Patient Populations
  18. Human Histocompatibility
  19. Methods in Parentage Testing
  20. Transfusion Safety and Regulatory Issues
  21. Quality Assurance

Author bios

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