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Transfusion medicine

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transfusion medicine
Blood banking A subspecialty of clinical pathology or internal medicine which is involved in Pt management through administration of blood cells and blood products including fresh-frozen plasma and cryoprecipitate; TM specialists are versant in relevant areas of hematology, immunology, infectious disease, both clinically and from a lab standpoint, participate in establishing standards for use of these products in a health care facility, and address the legal aspects of transfusions; in the US, the FDA and Am Assn of Blood Banks–AABB–set standards and provide guidelines in TM. See AABB, Transfusion criteria.


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Congress of the German Society for Transfusion Medicine & Immunohematology (41st: 2008: Dusseldorf, Germany) Ed.
The second edition of Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine combines scientific foundations with today's most practical approaches to the specialty.
Bacterial contamination is the leading infectious threat in transfusion medicine today and one of the primary causes of transfusion-related deaths.
 
 
 
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