Essentials of Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine

Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine has been prepared keeping in mind the necessary material, both theory and practical aspects, required for the postgraduate students of pathology, clinical postgraduate students who utilize blood, clinicians, MBBS students, students of AYUSH courses, diploma and laboratory technology students and nursing staff who work with blood transfusion.
An effort has been made to give at a glance the principles and practice of blood banking as it may be difficult for our readers to go through the voluminous books in transfusion medicine. The book has 23 chapters covering important topics like safe use of blood, blood donation, donor health screening, donor suitability, evaluation, phlebotomy, post-donation care and adverse donor reactions, ABO blood group systems and subgroups, Rh typing and weaker variants, anti-human globulin reagent, Coombs' test, crossmatching, transfusion reactions, transfusion transmitted diseases, preservation of blood, principles in blood and blood components, blood transfusion in clinical practice, autologous blood transfusion, blood substitutes, HLA antigens and other platelet and leucocyte antigens and their role in blood transfusion contents, errors and discrepancies in ABO typing, blood bank organization and its management, motivation, recruitment and retention of blood donors, recent advances in blood banking, quality improvement and quality control in blood transfusion services and convalescent plasma and SARS-CoV-2 (COV,ID- 19) antibodies.
Ganga SPilli MD, PhD, DTM
is Professor, Department of Pathology, KLE Academy of Higher Education and Research's JN Medical College, Belgaum, Karnataka. She has served as incharge of Blood Bank at KLE Society's Dr Prabhakar Kore Hospital. She has completed her PhD and is actively involved in research, academics and extracurricular activities. Backed with a teaching experience of 34 years, she has also conducted many CMEs on blood banking.