A Beginner's Guide to Blood Cells

ISBN-13: 9781119367734 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 160 str.

Bain, Barbara J.

Opis

The third edition of this popular pocket book, A Beginner's Guide to Blood Cells written by Professor Barbara Bain, provides a concise introduction to normal and abnormal blood cells and blood counts for trainees in haematology.

• Includes a brand new chapter on emergency morphology, designed to make the clinical significance and urgency of certain laboratory findings clear for biomedical scientists and to assist trainee haematologists in the recognition of major clinically important abnormalities
• Contains exceptional full colour images throughout
• Introduces important basic concepts of hematology, setting haematological findings in a clinical context
• Provides a fully updated self-assessment section
• An essential resource for trainee haematologists, biomedical scientists, and biomedical science and medical students

The third edition of this popular pocket book, A Beginner s Guide to Blood Cells written by Professor Barbara Bain, provides a concise introduction to normal and abnormal blood cells and blood counts for trainees in haematology.

Spis treści

Preface vii Abbreviations viii

1 The Blood Film and Count 1

2 Assessing Red Cells 29

3 Assessing White Cells and Platelets 45 Assessing white cell and platelet numbers 45 Assessing neutrophil morphology 46 Assessing lymphocyte morphology 51

4 Haematological Findings in Health and Disease 55 The blood film and count in healthy individuals 55 Abnormalities of red cells 56

5 Emergency Morphology: The Relevance of the Full Blood Count and Blood Film in Acute Illness 97 Thrombocytopenia 97

6 Self ]assessment 125

Index 143

O autorze

Professor Barbara Bain, MB BS, FRACP, FRCPath
Professor of Diagnostic Haematology, St Mary′s Hospital Campus, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, Consultant Haematologist, St Mary′s Hospital, London, UK

Blurb

A Beginner′s Guide to Blood Cells

THIRD EDITION

The third edition of this popular pocket book, A Beginner s Guide to Blood Cells, written by Professor Barbara Bain, provides a concise introduction to normal and abnormal blood cells and blood counts for trainees in haematology. Now updated and expanded to include a brand new chapter on emergency morphology designed to make the clinical significance and urgency of certain laboratory findings clear for biomedical scientists and to assist in the recognition of the major, clinically significant abnormalities all trainee haematologists must be familiar with before they go on call for laboratory haematology. This book:

Contains exceptional full colour images throughout

Introduces important basic concepts of haematology, setting haematological findings in a clinical context

Provides a fully updated self–assessment section in the final chapter

Offers an essential resource for trainee haematologists, biomedical scientists, and biomedical science and medical students

PROFESSOR BARBARA BAIN, MB BS, FRACP, FRCPath, Professor of Diagnostic Haematology, St Mary s Hospital Campus, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, Consultant Haematologist, St Mary s Hospital, London, UK