Zdravko Kvrzic

History of Blood Donation and Transfusion Medicine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a global overview of the history of blood donation using evidence-based research to provide accurate information on the beginnings of blood donation and transfusion medicine, developed as the result of numerous trials and successes throughout history.

It leads the reader step-by-step through time, to discover how people perceived blood, and how they managed to develop new ways of treating various unfortunate conditions that shattered a person's healthy life.

This book also presents new technical discoveries that have advanced through the present day and explains how, in cases of deadly diseases, safety procedures for blood examination have been made mandatory. The conditions that led to the contamination of thousands of patients by HIV and hepatitis C around the world are explained, and the debate between voluntary and paid systems is covered as well.

This book is a unique resource beneficial for everyday practice, as it encourages the reader to develop advanced practices for better and safer work with blood donors and in transfusion medicine; It gives a sense of humanitarian devotion to the deed of giving a part of yourself to save others' lives in danger because of trauma, disease, etc., and it shares different stories of blood donors, to help patients get over their fear of donating blood. It is useful for nurses, doctors, students, blood donors, historians, and other experts!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Nature Switzerland / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-031-68714-3
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 565g
• ISBN-13: 9783031687143
• ISBN-10: 3031687140
• Artikelnr.: 71217133

Autorenporträt

Mr. Zdravko Kvri¿ enrolled in the 4-year program to become a practical nurse at the secondary school of nursing, which he successfully completed in 2006. He then enrolled in a three-year first-cycle professional higher education study program in nursing at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Ljubljana, where he graduated in 2010. The topic of his thesis was Nursing care of a patient after implantation of a total hip endoprothesis in the intensive care unit. Mr. Kvri¿ is a member of the Nurses and Midwives Association of Slovenia since 2011. He is a licensed registered nurse with many years of professional experience in the field of blood donation, working at the Blood Transfusion Center of Slovenia since 2011 and in 2017 he became the head nurse of the plasmapheresis section, which is an organizational unit of the Center for Blood Donor Selection and Blood Collection of the Department of Blood Supply.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter1. Perspective on blood through history and its impact on transfusion.-Chapter 2.The curious case of Pope Innocent VIII.-Chapter 3. Animal blood donors for human patients.- Chapter 4. The first human-to-human transfusion in 1818.- Chapter 5. Interesting cases of transfusion in the 19th century.- Chapter 6. The discovery of blood groups in the 20th century.- Chapter 7. New developments during World War I.- Chapter 8. Different methods of transfusion by the 20th century.- Chapter 9. The first voluntary blood transfusion service in the world.-Chapter 10. First blood banks.- Chapter 11. Blood organisation during the Spanish Civil War.- Chapter 12. Blood donation and transfusion during World War II.- Chapter 13. Important events after World War II.- Chapter 14. New advancements in transfusion medicine.- Chapter 15. History of blood donation and transfusion medicine in the Republic of slovenia from 1875 - 1945.- Chapter 16. Organization and development of blood donation and transfusion medicine from the end of World War to present time.