Military Blood Banking. Immunohematology for the Reference and Forensic Testing Laboratory

摘要

The important problems and pitfalls involved in whole blood and blood component therapy are discussed. Some aspects of immunohematology are emphasized, but the central theme stresses means of preventing injury from blood transfusion. The major areas covered in this monograph include: medicolegal problems, general considerations of transfusion reactions, pitfalls of blood grouping and pretransfusion tests, blood components and plasmapheresis, donor immunization and hyperimmunization, tissue transplantation, scientific treatises in blood group immunology, consumption coagulopathy, and blood group antigens stored over five months in ACD-adenine. (Author)