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Blood and blood products safety and risk
Title
Blood and blood products [electronic resource] : safety and risk / Forum on Blood Safety and Blood Availability, Division of Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine ; Henrik Bendixen, Frederick Manning and Linette Sparacino, editors.
ISBN
0585026335 (electronic bk.)
9780585026336 (electronic bk.)
0309055830 (print)
9780309055833 (print)
Published
Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1996.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 186 p.) : ill.
Notes
"The talks summarized in this document were originally given at workshops on Current risks of disease transmission (July, 1994); Risk and regulation (January, 1995); and Managing threats to the blood supply (September, 1995)"--Foreword.
Description based on print version record.
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National Academies Press.
Other formats
Print version: Forum on Blood Safety and Blood Availability. Blood and blood products. Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1996
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 23, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
I. Current Risks of Disease Transmission. Blood and Blood Components: How Safe Are They Today? / Kenrad E. Nelson. Viral Inactivation of Blood Products: A General Overview / Bernard Horowitz
II. Guarding the Blood Supply. The Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study: Rationale and Methods / Thomas F. Zuck. Demographic and Serologic Characteristics of Volunteer Blood Donors / James J. Korelitz. CDC Surveillance of Donors / Eve M. Lackritz. Surveillance of Recipients / James R. Allen. CDC Surveillance of High-Risk Recipients / Bruce Evatt. CDC Surveillance for Unknown Pathogens / Scott Wetterhall
III. New Ideas for Safety and Monitoring. Information Technology and Blood Safety / J. Michael Fitzmaurice. Strategies for Dealing with Potentially Infected Recipients / Ernest R. Simon
IV. Risk Tolerance. Beneficial Aspects of Surgical Transfusion / Richard K. Spence.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Blood Transfusion - standards.
Blood Banks.
Blood Donors.
Risk Management.
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