Blood and blood products : safety and risk / Forum on Blood Safety and Blood Availability, Division of Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine ; Henrik Bendixen, Frederick Manning and Linette Sparacino, editors
I. Current Risks of Disease Transmission. Blood and Blood Components: How Safe Are They Today? / Kenrad E. Nelson. Viral Inactivation of Blood Products: A General Overview / Bernard Horowitz -- II. Guarding the Blood Supply. The Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study: Rationale and Methods / Thomas F. Zuck. Demographic and Serologic Characteristics of Volunteer Blood Donors / James J. Korelitz. CDC Surveillance of Donors / Eve M. Lackritz. Surveillance of Recipients / James R. Allen. CDC Surveillance of High-Risk Recipients / Bruce Evatt. CDC Surveillance for Unknown Pathogens / Scott Wetterhall -- III. New Ideas for Safety and Monitoring. Information Technology and Blood Safety / J. Michael Fitzmaurice. Strategies for Dealing with Potentially Infected Recipients / Ernest R. Simon -- IV. Risk Tolerance. Beneficial Aspects of Surgical Transfusion / Richard K. Spence
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"The talks summarized in this document were originally given at workshops on Current risks of disease transmission (July, 1994); Risk and regulation (January, 1995); and Managing threats to the blood supply (September, 1995)"--Foreword
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