Blood Technologies, Services, and Issues
Author : Lawrence H. Miike
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Author : Lawrence H. Miike
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 26,39 MB
Release : 1995-10-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309053293
During the early years of the AIDS epidemic, thousands of Americans became infected with HIV through the nation's blood supply. Because little reliable information existed at the time AIDS first began showing up in hemophiliacs and in others who had received transfusions, experts disagreed about whether blood and blood products could transmit the disease. During this period of great uncertainty, decision-making regarding the blood supply became increasingly difficult and fraught with risk. This volume provides a balanced inquiry into the blood safety controversy, which involves private sexual practices, personal tragedy for the victims of HIV/AIDS, and public confidence in America's blood services system. The book focuses on critical decisions as information about the danger to the blood supply emerged. The committee draws conclusions about what was doneâ€"and recommends what should be done to produce better outcomes in the face of future threats to blood safety. The committee frames its analysis around four critical area: Product treatmentâ€"Could effective methods for inactivating HIV in blood have been introduced sooner? Donor screening and referralâ€"including a review of screening to exlude high-risk individuals. Regulations and recall of contaminated bloodâ€"analyzing decisions by federal agencies and the private sector. Risk communicationâ€"examining whether infections could have been averted by better communication of the risks.
Author : United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Blood
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Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 49,48 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Medical
ISBN : 924154788X
"Blood transfusion is a life-saving intervention that has an essential role in patient management within health care systems. All Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) endorsed World Health Assembly resolutions WHA28.72 (1) in 1975 and WHA58.13 (2) in 2005. These commit them to the provision of adequate supplies of safe blood and blood products that are accessible to all patients who require transfusion either to save their lives or promote their continuing or improving health." --Preface.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 29,50 MB
Release : 1985
Category :
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Author : Dr Ericka Johnson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 24,11 MB
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1409492184
The advanced technologies being used in diagnosis and care within modern medicine, whilst supporting and making medical practices possible, may also conflict with established traditions of medicine and care. What happens to the patient in a technologized medical environment? How are doctors', nurses' and medical scientists' practices changed when artefacts are involved? How is knowledge negotiated, or relations of power reconfigured? Technology and Medical Practice addresses these developments and dilemmas, focusing on various practices with technologies within hospitals and sociotechnical systems of care. Combining science and technology studies with medical sociology, the history of medicine and feminist approaches to science, this book presents analyses of artefacts-in-use across a variety of settings within the UK, USA and Europe, and will appeal to sociologists, anthropologists and scholars of science and technology alike.
Author : Forum on Blood Safety and Blood Availability
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 1996-08-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309589622
This volume discusses the current state of the nation's blood supply--including studies of blood availability, ways of enhancing blood collection and distribution, frozen red cell technology, logistical concerns in prepositioning frozen blood, extended liquid storage of red cells, and blood substitutes.
Author : United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,61 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Blood
ISBN : 1428923330
Author : James P. AuBuchon
Publisher : A A B B Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,67 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Blood
ISBN : 9781563953095
Author : Ronda Hughes
Publisher : Department of Health and Human Services
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 21,88 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN :
"Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/