Transfusion Medicine, authored by Jeffrey McCullough, provides a concise, clinically focused, and practical approach to the field of blood banking and transfusion therapy. This fourth edition offers extensive guidance on important topics such as donor recruitment, blood collection and storage, donor testing, and clinical uses of blood components. It also delves into techniques for administering blood components, complications associated with transfusions, transmissible diseases, and the HLA system. New content includes patient blood management systems, changing indications for red cell transfusion, new transmissible disease agents, management of massive blood loss, pathogen-reduced blood components, therapeutic apheresis including photopheresis, and new cellular therapies.

The book also discusses global and US blood supply organizations, their consolidation and reorganization. It reviews topics such as mitigation strategies for Transfusion-Related Acute Lung Injury (TRALI) prevention, the effects of stored blood on adverse outcomes, management of massive blood loss, and massive transfusion protocols. Pathogen inactivation methods and granulocyte transfusions are also discussed.

Extensively referenced for further study, this comprehensive resource is essential reading for healthcare professionals involved in blood banking and transfusion medicine.