Mehdi S.R. (ed.) Essentials of Blood Banking: A Handbook for Students of Blood Banking and Clinical Residents

Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, 2013. — 125 p. — ISBN: 9789380704524Blood banking has come of age. The transfusion medicine is one of the thrust areas of medical research. The scare of transfusion-transmitted diseases and globalisation of AIDS have led to extraordinary media attention. The medicolegal aspects of blood banking act as a booster for maintaining quality and ensuring safety of blood. Majority of the blood banks in the developing countries have developed their component laboratories. The use of whole blood is minimised day-byday.Almost all the departments of the hospital, surgical or non-surgical, hospital staff, medical or paramedical, and people in the form of patients or healthy blood donors come in contact of blood banks. The dissemination of knowledge of blood banking has become need of the hour.Immunohaematology
ABO blood group system
Rh blood group system
Other blood group systems
Antihuman globulin (Coombs’) test
Detection and identification of antibodies
Cross-matching (compatibility testing)
Transfusion reactions and complications
Screening for diseases transmitted through blood
Blood donor and collection of blood
Storage and preservation of blood and its components
Haemolytic disease of the newborn
Autoimmune haemolytic anaemia
Blood components
Transfusion therapy
Neonatal and pediatric transfusion
Obstetrical transfusion practice