Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1. Donor Recruitment and Retention
Cecilia Tan (Deputy Secretary General, Operations, Singapore Red Cross Society, Singapore)
Chapter 2. Blood Donor Counseling and Selection
Priti Elhence, Anupam Verma (Department of Transfusion Medicine, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India)
Chapter 3. Donor Room Procedures
Veena Doda (Head, Department of Transfusion Medicine, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi, India)
Chapter 4. Apheresis
Prashant Agarwal and Ashutosh Singh (Department of Transfusion Medicine, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Science, Lucknow, India)
Chapter 5. Basic Principles of Immunohematology
Ali Akbar Pourfathollah, Shaghayegh Arabi (Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization, Tehran, Iran, and others)
Chapter 6. ABO and Rh Blood Group Systems
K. Vasantha, Swati Kulkarni (Department of Transfusion Medicine, National Institute of Immunohaematology (ICMR), Mumbai, India)
Chapter 7. Other Blood Group Systems
Sanmukh R. Joshi (Allianze University College of Medical Sciences, Penang, Malaysia)
Chapter 8. Techniques in Immunohematology
Ali Akbar Pourfathollah, Shaghayegh Arabi (Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization, Tehran, Iran, and others)
Chapter 9. Compatibility Testing
Farheen Karim, Salman Naseem Adil (Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan)
Chapter 10. Molecular Concepts in Immunohematology
Swati Kulkarni, Harita Gogri (Department of Transfusion Medicine, National Institute of Immunohematology, Mumbai, India)
Chapter 11. Best Practice Laboratory Testing for Transfusion Transmissible Infections
Susan Best, Wayne Dimech and Roderick Chappel (National Serology Reference Laboratory, Melbourne, Australia)
Chapter 12. Blood Components
Diana Teo (Blood Services Group, Health Sciences Authority, Singapore)
Chapter 13. Specialized Blood Components
Sunil B. Rajadhyaksha and Priti Desai (Department of transfusion medicine, Tata Memorial Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, India)
Chapter 14. Infectious Complications of Transfusions in Developing Countries
Jean-Pierre Allain, and Alex Owusu-Ofori (Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, and others)
Chapter 15. Non-Infectious Complications of Blood Transfusion
Jayashree Sharma (Department of Transfusion Medicine, Seth G.S. Medical College and KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, India)
Chapter 16. Biosafety and Waste Management
Deepak T., Abhishek Mewara, Rakesh Sehgal (Department of Medical Parasitology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India)
Editor Contact Information
Acknowledgments
Index