Handbook of Veterinary Transfusion Medicine

This text offers practical information regarding the collection, storage, and use of blood products in companion animals. Recommendations for feline and canine donor selection, screening, and maintenance are included. Concise guidelines for use of whole blood and blood components provide an easy-to-read source regarding storage and administration. Procedures for the production of blood components and handy instruction sheets available for patient side reference enhance the reader's ability to practice quality transfusion medicine.

As the only book of its kind, this comprehensive text fills a real gap that exists in veterinary internal medicine.
Blood typing discussion helps the practitioner find the proper blood product for each patient needing a transfusion.
Guidelines to the positive identification of the patient and the blood sample are included, always a matter of critical importance.
The problem of acute transfusion reactions, which usually occur within 24 hours, is described, showing how all patients must be monitored throughout transfusion.
A knowledgeable and established author, Dr. Hale was awarded the Transfusion Academic Award from NIH, and is a member of the standards committee for the Association of Veterinary Hematology and Transfusion Medicine.