Manual of Veterinary Transfusion Medicine and Blood Banking

This concise manual focused on the practical aspects of transfusion medicine and blood banking provides veterinary practitioners with evidence–based guidelines to refer to at the clinical practice level.

Using a practical approach, the Manual of Veterinary Transfusion Medicine and Blood Banking begins with thorough coverage of transfusion medicine, with topics including component therapy, red blood cell, plasma, and platelet products, and alternative blood products.  Subsequent sections include chapters on recipient screening, complications, and monitoring, donor selection, blood collection and storage, as well as how to meet blood product demands. The final section covers transfusion medicine in equine, food animals, birds, small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and primates.

Veterinarians and veterinary technicians who wish to incorporate transfusion medicine and blood banking into their practices will find the Manual of Veterinary Transfusion Medicine and Blood Banking an instrumental resource.

Key features

Provides evidence–based information on transfusion medicine and blood banking practices Presents sections on recipient screening, donor selection, blood collection and storage, and how to meet blood product demands Includes useful protocols for transfusions and blood banking relevant to clinical practice Incorporates the balanced perspectives of veterinarians and veterinary technicians Contains information pertaining to large, small, and exotic animals

Section I: Introduction to Veterinary Transfusion Medicine

Chapter 1: Evolution of Veterinary Transfusion Medicine and Blood Banking
Marie Holowaychuk and Kenichiro Yagi

Chapter 2: Component Therapy
Julie Walker

Section II: Blood Products

Chapter 3: Red Blood Cell Products
Caroline Kisielewicz

Chapter 4: Plasma Products
K. Jane Wardrop and Marjory Brooks

Chapter 5: Platelet Products
Mary Beth Callan and Kimberly Marryott

Chapter 6: Hemoglobin–based Oxygen Carrier (HBOC) Solutions
Marie Holowaychuk and Thomas Day

Chapter 7: Alternative Plasma Protein Products: Albumin and Human Immunoglobulin Therapy
Nicole Spurlock

Chapter 8: Miscellaneous Blood Product Usage
Marie Holowaychuk and Kenichiro Yagi

Section III: Blood Product Administration

Chapter 9: Canine Recipient Screening
Lynel Tocci

Chapter 10: Feline Recipient Screening
Anthony Abrams–Ogg

Chapter 11: Transfusion–Associated Complications
Shauna Blois

Chapter 12: Recipient Monitoring
Kenichiro Yagi and Marie Holowaychuk

Section IV: Blood Banking

Chapter 13: Canine Donor Selection
Kenichiro Yagi and Brandee Bean

Chapter 14: Canine Blood Collection
Kenichiro Yagi

Chapter 15: Feline Donor Selection
Charlotte Russo and Karen Humm

Chapter 16: Feline Blood Collection
Robyn Taylor and Karen Humm

Chapter 17: Blood Component Processing and Storage
Cheryl Mansell and Manuel Boller

Section V: Meeting Blood Product Demands

Chapter 18: Blood Product Sources
Sally Lester

Chapter 19: Donor Program Management
Rebecca Nusbaum

Chapter 20: Limiting Allogenic Blood Transfusions
Marie Holowaychuk

Chapter 21: Alternative Transfusion Methods
Sophie Adamantos and Caroline Smith

Section VI: Transfusion Medicine in Other Species

Chapter 22: Equine Transfusion Medicine
Margaret Mudge and Olivia Williams

Chapter 23: Food and Fiber Animal Transfusion Medicine
Brent Credille and Kira Epstein

Chapter 24: Avian Transfusion Medicine
Stephen Cital, Angela Lennox, and Andrea Goodnight

Chapter 25: Small Mammal Transfusion Medicine
Jody Nugent–Deal and Kristina Palmer

Chapter 26: Reptiles and Amphibian Transfusion Medicine
Stephen Cital and Andrea Goodnight

Chapter 27: Primate Transfusion Medicine
Stephen Cital, Angela Colagross–Schouten, and Laura Summers

Kenichiro Yagi, BS, RVT, VTS (ECC, SAIM), ICU Manager/Blood Bank Manager at Adobe Animal Hospital, Los Altos, CA

Marie K. Holowaychuk, DVM, DACVECC, Critical Care Vet Consulting, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada