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Derwood H. Pamphilon MD, MRCPCH, FRCP, FRCPath
Consultant Haematologist, NHS Blood & Transplant
Honorary Clinical Reader, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Recent evolution of transfusion medicine | |
Basic principles of immunohaematology | |
Essential immunology for transfusion medicine | |
Human blood group systems | |
Human leucocyte antigens | |
Platelet and neutrophil antigens | |
Complications of transfusion | |
Approach to the investigation and management of transfusion reactions | |
Haemolytic transfusion reactions | |
Febrile and allergic transfusion reactions | |
Transfusion-related acute lung injury | |
Transfusion-related immunomodulation | |
Micro-chimerism and transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease | |
Post-tranfusion purpura | |
Tranfusion-transmitted infections | |
Bacterial contamination | |
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease | |
Emerging infections and transfusion safety | |
Practice in blood centres and hospitals | |
Regulatory aspects of blood transfusion | |
The role of haemovigilance in transfusion safety | |
Donors and blood collection | |
Blood donation testing and the safety of the blood supply | |
Production and storage of blood components | |
Medicolegal aspects of transfusion practice | |
Blood transfusion in hospitals | |
Blood transfusion in a global context | |
Clinical transfusion practice | |
Good blood management: the effective and safe use of blood components | |
Prenatal and childhood transfusions | |
Haematological disease | |
Blood transfusion in the management of patients with haemoglobinopathies | |
Massive blood loss | |
Inherited and acquired coagulation disorders | |
Recombinant proteins in diagnosis and therapy | |
Immunodeficiency and immunoglobulin therapy | |
Alternatives to transfusion | |
The principles of bloodless medicine and surgery | |
Autologous transfusion | |
Blood substitutes | |
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