clinical Transfusion medicine_图书大全
clinical Transfusion medicine
ISBN: 9781570594946
内容简介
Clinical transfusion medicine is an evolving subspecialty, which straddles
traditional areas of pathology and clinical hematology. This subspecialities
is concerned with aspects of blood procurement, including safety, logistics
and economics, and the appropriate use of blood products in different
clinical situations. This causes the transfusion medicine physician
to interact with (and occasionally come into conflict with!) surgeons, anesthesiologists,
internists, and many subspecialists in internal medicine,
particularly, oncologists and hematologists. The resultant of this interaction
should be improvement in blood utilization. In short, the role of
clinical transfusion medicine is to promote good transfusion practice.
Promoting good transfusion practice is often hindered by a lack of good
clinical data validating many current transfusion practices. Confounding
this problem is the often entrenched belief in the clinical usefulness of
many traditional transfusion practices. The transfusion medicine physician
is, therefore, frequently put in the position of altering practices, a
precarious role in any institution!!
This short book is intended to put clinical problems in perspective as
they relate to decision making regarding blood transfusion. It is aimed at
nursing staff, perfusionists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and
medical students and residents, many of whom lack depth in their understanding
of transfusion. The language is kept as nontechnical as possible
therefore, and detail is intentionally omitted. However, it is hoped that
the background information and general principles should facilitate the
exercise of good judgment.
