Includes bibliographical references and index.

History -- The blood supply -- Recruitment of blood donors -- Blood donor medical assessment and blood collection -- Preparation, storage, and characteristics of blood components and plasma derivatives -- Autol ogous blood donation and transfusion -- Production of components by aph eresis -- Laboratory testing of donated blood -- Blood groups -- Labora tory detection of blood groups and provision of red cells -- Clinical u ses of blood components -- Transfusion therapy in specific clinical sit uations -- Techniques of blood transfusion -- Complications of transfus ion -- Transfusion-transmitted diseases -- The HLA system in transfusio n medicine and transplantation / S. Yoon Choo -- Hematopoietic growth f actors in transfusion medicine -- Cellular engineering for the producti on of new blood components -- Therapeutic apheresis -- Quality programs in blood banking and transfusion medicine.