Risk Management in Blood Transfusion

This book is composed of four major sections: The perception of risk, where authorities from the field of environmental psychology and risk analysis describe the backgrounds and mechanisms of cognitive behavior and the effects of emotional and publicity factors on perception and acceptance of risk. The management of infection-defined risk, the core of public and political anxiety. Here the book illustrates how safe the current blood supply has become over the past decade in at least the majority of industrialized countries in the world. The management of immune-defined risks has been the Cinderella of blood transfusion and transfusion medicine up till now. Risk management in clinical practice: optimal versus maximal is the section where the real virtue of reality comes to life through valuable contributors by authors from the field of clinical blood banking, heavily involved consumers organizations (WFH), the Cochrane Institute of Medical Sciences and National Health Services Center for reviews and dissemination, and international policy makers and regulative bodies like the Council of Europe and the European Commission. When the reader is first confronted with a poem illustrating the reality of virtue, written by one of the editors noted for his talent in anecdotal medical poetry, the scene is set for the virtue of reality in the management of risk in blood transfusion.

ISBN 0792360540   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780792360544 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 1170 Publisher Kluwer Academic Publishers   Published in Dordrecht Imprint Kluwer Academic Publishers   Conference name International Symposium on Blood Transfusion Format Hardback   Series ISSN 34 Publication date 01 Oct 1999   Series title Developments in Hematology and Immunology Library of Congress RM   Height (mm) 234 DEWEY 615.39   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY edition DC21   Spine width (mm) 15 Pages 226   Academic level Professional / Scholarly Part volume Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Blood Transfusion

		Moderators and Speakers
		Foreword
		Does Perceived Risk Withhold People from Donating Blood? by Ch. A. J. Vlek		3
		Managing Risks from an Insurer's Perceptive by A. Oosterlee		23
		Bad Blood or the Elixir of Life? Perceived Risk of Blood Transfusions by M. L. Finucane		27
		The Role of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Defining Transfusion Medicine Policy by J. P. AuBuchon		47
		Discussion		59
		Risks of Transfusion-Transmitted Infection: A Comparative Analysis of Then and Now by H. J. Alter		69
		Prevention of Transfusion Transmissible Infections: The Impact of the Recent Past on Current Decision Making by S. H. Kleinman		81
		Management of Infection-Defined Risks by R. Y. Dodd		95
		Closing the Window of Early HIV Infection by Incorporation of HIV p24 Ag Detection by J. van Binsbergen		105
		GAT Testing: Added Value? by L. Noel		109
		Discussion		119
		The Role of T and B Cells in Transfusion-Related Immune Reactions: Cytokines and the Removal of Apoptic Material by L. A. Aarden		131
		Involvement of B-cells in Peripheral Scrapie Pathogenesis by M. Klein		133
		Alternative Approaches to Prevention of Alloimmunisation: A Virtue of Reality? by J. Th. M. de Wolf		141
		Transfusion-Associated Immunomodulation in Cancer Recurrence and Postoperative Infection: Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials by E. C. Vamvakas		147
		Does General Leukodepletion Provide Any Better Outcome? by C. L. van der Poel		163
		Discussion		169
		Haemovigilance: An Approach to Risk Management and Control by C. Th. Smith Sibinga		181
		Evidence-Based Transfusion Medicine: A Fundamental Part of Risk Management by J. Kleijnen		191
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