History -- The blood supply -- Recruitment of blood donors -- Blood donor medical assessment and blood collection -- Preparation, storage, and characteristics of blood components and plasma derivatives -- Autologous blood donation and transfusion -- Production of components by apheresis -- Laboratory testing of donated blood -- Blood groups -- Laboratory detection of blood groups and provision of red cells -- Clinical uses of blood components -- Transfusion therapy in specific clinical situations -- Techniques of blood transfusion -- Complications of transfusion -- Transfusion-transmitted diseases -- The HLA system in transfusion medicine and transplantation -- Hematopoietic growth factors in transfusion medicine -- Cellular engineering for the production of new blood components – Therapeutic apheresis -- Quality programs in blood banking and transfusion medicine

1. Blood Transfusion
2. Blood Banks -- organization & administration
3. Blood Donors
4. Blood Group Antigens