By
Robert Winslow, University of California, Department of Medicine and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Diego, U.S.A.
Description
Blood substitutes are solutions designed for use in patients who need blood transfusions, but for whom whole blood is not available, or
is not safe. This interest has intensified in the wake of the AIDS and hepatitis C epidemics.
Blood Substitutes describes
the rationale, current approaches, clinical efficacy, and design issues for all blood substitutes now in clinical trials. The many summary
diagrams and tables help make the book accessible to readers such as surgeons and blood bankers, who have less technical expertise than
the biochemists and hematologists who are designing and testing blood substitutes.
Audience:
Hematologists, blood bankers, biochemists, and biotechnologists working in the hemoglobin area, as well as surgeons working with blood
