Title | Risk Management in Blood Transfusion: The Virtue of Reality [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Symposium on Blood Transfusion, Groningen 1998, organized by the Blood Bank Noord Nederland / edited by C. Th. Smit Sibinga, H. J. Alter |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1999 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3009-8 |
Descript | XII, 236 p. online resource |
I. Perception of Risk -- Does Perceived Risk Withhold People from Donating Blood? -- Managing Risks from an Insurerโs Perspective -- Bad Blood or the Elixir of Life? Perceived Risk of Blood Transfusions -- The Role of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Defining Transfusion Medicine Policy -- II. Management of Infection Defined Risks -- Risks of Transfusion-Transmitted Infection: A Comparative Analysis of Then and Now -- Prevention of Transfusion Transmissible Infections: The Impact of the Recent Past on Current Decision Making -- Management of Infection-Defined Risks -- Closing the Window of Early HIV Infection by Incorporation of HIV p24 Ag Detection -- GAT Testing: Added Value? -- III. Management of Immune Defined Risks -- The Role of T and B Cells in Transfusion-Related Immune Reactions: Cytokines and the Removal of Apoptotic Material -- Involvement of B-cells in Peripheral Scrapie Pathogenesis -- Alternative Approaches to Prevention of Alloimmunisation: A Virtue of Reality? -- Transfusion-Associated Immunodulation in Cancer Recurrence and Postoperative Infection: Meta-Analyses of Randomised Controlled Trials -- Does General Leukodepletion Provide Any Better Outcome? -- IV. Risk Management in Clinical Practice: Optimal vs Maximal -- Haemovigilance: An Approach to Risk Management and Control -- Evidence-Based Transfusion Medicine: A Fundamental Part of Risk Management -- Safety and Supply Issues from Consumers Point of View -- The Value of Education to Improve Perception, Acceptance and Communication of Transfusion-Related Risk -- This is the Bloody Limit -- The Virtue of Reality: Global Strategies in the Management of Transfusion-Related Risks