Blood and Blood Products: Safety and Risk

Forum on Blood Safety and Blood Availability, Linette Sparacino

National Academies Press, Dec 5, 1996 - Medical - 186 pages

This volume explores the safety and availability of the nation's supply of blood and blood components. It discusses the risks of disease transmission, methods of guarding the blood supply, new ideas on safety and monitoring, risk tolerance, risk communication, and no-fault insurance.

Contents

• How Safe Are They Today?: 3
• V: 10
• Rationale: 27
• Surveillance of Donors Eve M Lackritz: 39
• Surveillance of Recipients James R Allen: 45
• Surveillance of HighRisk Recipients Bruce Evatt: 53
• Surveillance for Unknown Pathogens Scott Wetterhall: 59
• Information Technology and Blood Safety J Michael Fitzmaurice: 69
• Strategies for Dealing with Potentially Infected Recipients: 77
• Beneficial Aspects of Surgical Transfusion Richard K Spence: 83
• Tradeoff of the Risk of Hepatitis and the Benefit of Clotting Factor: 93
• Examples of Risks That We Tolerate Harvey G Klein: 101
• Administrative and NoFault Systems for Compensating Medically: 157
• The Colorado and Utah Models of Compensating Patient Injury: 165
• Henrik H Bendixen: 177
• B Workshop Participants: 183

Bibliographic information

• Title: Blood and Blood Products: Safety and Risk; Online access: National Academy of Sciences National Academies Press
• Authors: Forum on Blood Safety and Blood Availability, Linette Sparacino
• Editors: Henrik Bendixen, Frederick Manning, Linette Sparacino
• Publisher: National Academies Press, 1996
• Original from: National Academies Press
• Digitized: Aug 14, 2008
• ISBN: 0309055830, 9780309055833
• Length: 186 pages
• Subjects: Medical / Allied Health Services / Medical Technology; Medical / General; Medical / Health Policy