Blood Safety: A Guide to Monitoring and Responding to Potential New Threats - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3319944355 ISBN 13: 9783319944357

Publisher: Springer, 2018

Synopsis

This book offers a concise yet comprehensive overview on critical issues in monitoring and responding to new microbial threats to blood safety. It provides information on the current concerns and mechanisms for monitoring potential new infectious threats to blood safety, evaluates the response to these new threats, and explores the complex issues related to blood safety, including health economics, the relationship between levels of public health threats (actual danger) versus public concerns (perceived danger), and the challenges in coordinating international collaborative efforts. The text also includes several case studies that illustrate the existing systems used for monitoring and responding to new threats to blood safety.

Written by experts in the field, Blood Safety: A Guide to Monitoring and Responding to Potential New Threats is a valuable resource for health care professionals who are responsible for the medical management of blood services.

 

About this title

About the Author

Hua Shan, MD, PhD

Professor/Medical Director

Stanford University Medical Center

Department of Pathology

Stanford, CA

USA

Roger Y. Dodd, PhD

Medical Office, American Red Cross

Adjunct Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Department of Pathology

Rockville, MD 

USA

 

From the Back Cover

This book offers a concise yet comprehensive overview on critical issues in monitoring and responding to new microbial threats to blood safety. It provides information on the current concerns and mechanisms for monitoring potential new infectious threats to blood safety, evaluates the response to these new threats, and explores the complex issues related to blood safety, including health economics, the relationship between levels of public health threats (actual danger) versus public concerns (perceived danger), and the challenges in coordinating international collaborative efforts. The text also includes several case studies that illustrate the existing systems used for monitoring and responding to new threats to blood safety.

Written by experts in the field, Blood Safety: A Guide to Monitoring and Responding to Potential New Threats is a valuable resource for health care professionals who are responsible for the medical management of blood services.

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319944355
• ISBN 13: 9783319944357
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 268
• Editor: Shan Hua, Dodd Roger Y.