Tissue and Cell Donation: An Essential Guide

Explores a range of issues related to the human impact of tissue and cell donation programs around the world.

The text addresses the areas that are of key concern and have profound implications for the donors, recipients and healthcare professionals involved. Focusing on tissue, assisted reproduction and hematopoietic stem cells this book is essential reading for all those working in the field of human transplant donation and those who regulate this field.

Key features:

• Policies and practices reviewed using specific donor case histories as examples
• Multidisciplinary team of editors and contributors, with expertise in tissue and cell banking and transplantation, haematology, transfusion medicine, microbiology, and medical ethics
• Provides a guide to easier and safer practice in referrals, tissue and organ procurement, cord blood collection and decision-making

Platform:

OvidSP

Publisher:

Wiley

Product Type:

Book

Author:

Warwick, Ruth M.; Fehily, Deirdre; Brubaker, Scott A.; Eastlund, Ted; Matesanz, Rafael

ISBN:

978-1-40-516322-4

Specialty:

• Hematology
• Internal Medicine

Language:

English

Edition:

1st

Pages:

296

Publication Year:

2009