Main description:

This volume is a collection of immunohematology and transfusion medicine cases, comprised of clinical vignettes and antibody panels with questions based on each case, arranged in a workbook format. The cases are based on real patient problems which are typically encountered and covers a number of common issues and challenging problems in blood banking and transfusion practice. Discussion and resolution of each case is provided in a separate answer section, including up-to-date information on pertinent advances in the field.

Written by experts in the field, Immunohematology and Transfusion Medicine: A Case Study Approach provides an interactive tool to help make blood banking and transfusion medicine memorable, practical, and relevant to residents and fellows.

Contents:

Case 1 Basic Single Antibody Identification- How Hard Can It Be?

Case 2 Rhesus Pieces

Case 3 Cold Case

Case 4 Child's Play

Case 5 I Can "See" Clearly Now

Case 6 You Really "Oughta" Get This

Case 7 What the Kell

Case 8 EeeeeK!!!

Case 9 Are You Kidding?

Case 10 G-Force

Case 11 Hide and Seek

Case 12 The Transfusion Reaction

Case 13 What's this Junk?

Case 14 Playing with Enzymes

Case 15 The Platelet Transfusion

Case 16 Differential Alloadsorption

Case 17 Hey, How Did That Antibody Get There?

Case 18 I Can't Stop the Hemolysis!

Case 19 Just Another Autoantibody

Case 20 I Got You Baby

Case 21 "You" Got that Right

Case 22 The Case of Low Platelets

Case 23 The Perils of Transfusing the Sickle Cell Patient

Case 24 To KB or not to KB, that is the Question

Case 25 It May do Harm

Case 26 Fuggedaboutit

Case 27 Bad Medicine

Case 28 In the Clouds

Case 29 Emergency!

Case 30 Time to Change the Plasma

Case 31 Do the Math!

Case 32 Eight is Enough!

Case 33 Cruising for a Bruising

Case 34 Help, I Can't Stop the Bleeding!

Case 35 Saving Blood