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

ISBN-13: 9783030068516 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str.

Hua Shan; Roger Y. Dodd

Recenzje

"This is the book for you if you are interested in the nexus of politics, policy, finance, scientific technology, and public opinion on blood safety improvement. Truly mind expanding." (Valerie L. Ng, Doody's Book Reviews, March, 2018)

Spis treści

Part I: Recent Progress

1 Prediction and Prevention: Interventions to Enhance Blood Safety

Roger Y. Dodd

2 Assessing the Threat: Public Health

Hans L. Zaaijer

3 Assessing the Threat: Public Concern

Anne Wiles, Judie Leach Bennett, Dana Devine

4 Health Economics in Blood Safety

Brian Custer

5. Decision Systems

Philip Kiely

Part II: Case Studies

6 HIV and Blood Safety

Mrigender Virk, Hua Shan

7 vCJD Case Studies

Patricia Hewitt, Robert Will

8 Case Study: West Nile Virus

Roger Y. Dodd

9 Zika Virus

Luiz Amorim

Part III: Current Concerns

10 The Emergence of Zoonotic Pathogens as Agents of Concern in Transfusion Medicine

Louis M. Katz

11 Tick-Borne Infections: Beware the Tortoises Among Us

David A. Leiby

Part IV: International Collaboration

12 International Collaboration for Improving Global Blood Safety, and for Monitoring and Responding to Potential Microbial Threats

Jose Ramiro Cruz, Rene Berrios Cruz, Jorge Duque Rodríguez, Silvina Kuperman

O autorze

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

 

Blurb

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.