title: Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine: Basic Principles and Practice
author: Christopher D. Hillyer MD
description: Christopher D. Hillyer, MD, is President and CEO of New York Blood Center and Professor, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY. Previously, he was the tenured, endowed Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine and served as director of the Emory Center for Transfusion and Cellular Therapies with responsibility for all aspects of clinical and academic transfusion medicine at Emorys seven principle hospitals. Dr. Hillyer is an editor of twelve textbooks in transfusion medicine, author of over 160 articles pertaining to transfusion, human immunodeficiency virus, and herpes viruses, most notably cytomegalovirus. Nationally recognized as an expert in hematology and blood transfusion, Dr. Hillyer is also a past-president, board of directors of AABB and a former trustee of the National Blood Foundation. Dr. Hillyer has been awarded many million dollars in research funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other agencies. He was an associate editor of Transfusion and serves on several other editorial boards. Dr. Hillyer was formally recognized for his work in Africa as part of the AABB/Emory cooperative agreement from the Presidents Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and is a recipient of two Tiffany Awards from the American Red Cross where he also served as a medical director and a member of their national Medical Advisory Board. He also received the 2014 Emily Cooley Award from AABB for his significant commitment and contributions to the field of transfusion medicine through extensive teaching, mentoring and professional leadership, and the countless clinical, scientific and innovative resource materials he has created to educate others. He is a co-founder of Transfusion &amp; Transplantation Technologies, Inc (3Ti) and holds over 20 patents or patents pending. Dr. Hillyer is board certified in transfusion medicine, hematology, medical oncology and internal medicine. He received his BS from Trinity College, and his MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine, with postgraduate training and fellowships in hematology-oncology, transfusion medicine and bone marrow transplantation at Tufts-New England Medical Center.
zlib_text: Table	of	Contents
  Cover
  Title	Page
  Preface
  About	the	Companion	Website
  Chapter	1:	The	Blood	Donor
  Introduction
  Owner	Recruitment
  Donor	Attributes
  References	and	Further	Reading
  Chapter	2:	Blood	Collection
  Introduction
  Basic	Equipment	Needs
  Anticoagulant–Preservatives	and	Blood	Collection	Systems
  Anticoagulant–Preservative	Solutions	and	Red	Cell	Additives
  Blood	Collection	Systems
  References	and	Further	Reading
  Chapter	3:	Blood	Products	Overview
  Introduction
  Blood	Components
  References	and	Further	Reading
  Chapter	4:	Clinical	Considerations	in	Transfusion	Practice
  Introduction
  Laboratory	Evaluation	for	Pretransfusion	Testing
  Considerations	for	Transfusion
  The	Decision	to	Transfuse
  Preparation	of	Blood	Products	for	Transfusion
  Initiating	Blood	Administration
  Blood	Administration
  References	and	Further	Reading
  Chapter	5:	Adverse	Effects	of	Blood	Transfusion
  Introduction
  
  Acute	Hemolytic	Transfusion	Reactions
  Delayed	Hemolytic	Transfusion	Reactions
  Nonhemolytic	Transfusion	Reactions:	Allergi