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BLOOD BANKING AND TRANSFUSION MEDICINE
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Basic Principles and Practice
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Second Edition
By
Christopher Hillyer, MD, Director, Transfusion Medicine Program; Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
Leslie Silberstein, MD, Director, Joint Program in Transfusion Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, And Brigham and Women's
Hospital; Professor of Pathology (Pediatrics), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Paul Ness, MD, Director, Transfusion Medicine Division, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions; Professor, Pathology, Medicine, and Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Kenneth Anderson, MD, Chief, Division of Hematologic Neoplasia; Director, Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Kraft Family
Professor of Medicine, Joint Program in Transfusion Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
John Roback, MD, PhD, Associate Director, Transfusion Medicine Program; Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
Reviews
Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine: Basic Principles and Practice
Second Edition.
Edited by Christopher D. Hillyer, Leslie
E. Silberstein, Paul M. Ness, Kenneth C. Anderson, and John D. Roback. 887 pp, ISBN-13: 978-0-443-06981-9, Philadelphia, Pa, Churchill
Livingstone, Elsevier, 2007.
Substantial additions have been made in the second edition of this textbook. These are within cellular
therapy, component preparation, infectious disease testing, and the basic biology of transfusion therapy. It is the editors' goal that
this textbook remains the definitive source of blood banking and transfusion medicine biology and practice for professionals within these
fields.
I must admit that this second edition is an impressive textbook. In a comprehensive way it is parted into two well-balanced
sections on blood banking and transfusion medicine preceded by a brief history of blood transfusion. The section on blood banking covers
all relevant aspects such as immunohematology, donation, legal/regulatory (USA/Canada) issues, standard and specialized blood components
including pathogen reduction and inactivation. The section on transfusion medicine is parted into chapters centered around relevant clinical
settings, such as the transfusion demanding critical ill patients, patients with various kinds of coagulations defects, pediatric patients
and many more. Taken together, all transfusion medical features of the transfusion demanding patients are well covered, including transfusion
complications and therapeutic aphereses. Finally, a comprehensive mini section on tissue banking and cellular therapies, including stem
cell transplantation, is given.
All the chapters are authored and the book edited by leading scientists who are also ?operators?
in the fields. Scientifically, the chapters are up to date. Obviously, a main focus has been to provide a text that is operational in
relation to various practical situations and with appropriate depth of information. There is always a clear clinical orientation, directed
to both the blood bank physician and the transfusing physician. The book absolutely combines scientific foundations with today's most
practical approaches. Also, advances in molecular genetics and complicated science are covered with an emphasis on clinical implications
for diagnosis and treatment.
I especially appreciated the ease by which one can find operational answers to both simple and rather
complicated clinical problems. During my reading of the book our hospital received a patient with a life threatening bleeding due to
acquired FVIII deficiency. The textbook provided easy accessible and operational information on diagnosis and treatment due to its clinical
emphasis. Also, the various kinds of anemias are addressed with a focus on diagnostic and therapeutic options. In general, one is pleased
to find the text complete in its coverage of clinical therapeutics, also when looking for educational material. Anesthesiologists, internists,
and surgeons will find the basic information on various products and guidelines for their administration valuable.
Today's transfusion
medicine specialists coordinate many aspects of blood donation, component preparations, and transfusion practices, which encompass important
issues within quality assurance, patient care, and cost-effectiveness. Along with the new therapies in the field of interventional hematology
such as blood substitutes, hematopoietic growth factors, stem cell transplantation, and cellular therapies there is a growing clinical
role for the blood bank physician. Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine is a comprehensive, up-to-date, well-written and well-edited
textbook. It is very useful for the staff in blood banks, for transfusion medicine specialists and for residents in pathology, hematology
and oncology.
Reviewed by Morten Bagge Hansen, European Journal of Haematology
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