Clinical Laboratory Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine Practices, 1st edition

For courses in blood banking, immunohematology and transfusion.

All the content students need to succeed in a transfusion medicine laboratory

Clinical Laboratory Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine provides readers with the didactic foundation, background and tools to successfully function in a typical transfusion medicine laboratory. A blend of theoretical and practical information helps learners synthesize information and, ultimately, answer questions and solve problems. A running case study illuminates real-world applications and relevance.

Hallmark features of this title

Setting the stage for each chapter

• A running case study introduces each chapter and includes questions. Subsequent installments of the case study are seen throughout chapters.
• What's Ahead? is the title of each chapter's introduction. It consists of a paragraph and a series of questions. Answers are covered in the chapter.

Self-assessment opportunities

• Checkpoint questions throughout chapters let students check their understanding as they go.
• Review questions for each chapter are tied to a chapter learning objective.

Learning aids

• Chapter-starting and -ending features include a content outline, learning objectives, and key terms and phrases (start of chapters) and a review of main points (end of chapters).
• Tables, figures and boxes are scattered throughout chapters.