Main description:

This book offers a concise yet comprehensive overview on critical issues in monitoring and responding to new microbial threats to blood safety. It provides information on the current concerns and mechanisms for monitoring potential new infectious threats to blood safety, evaluates the response to these new threats, and explores the complex issues related to blood safety, including health economics, the relationship between levels of public health threats (actual danger) versus public concerns (perceived danger), and the challenges in coordinating international collaborative efforts. The text also includes several case studies that illustrate the existing systems used for monitoring and responding to new threats to blood safety.
Written by experts in the field, Blood Safety: A Guide to Monitoring and Responding to Potential New Threats is a valuable resource for health care professionals who are responsible for the medical management of blood services.

Contents:

Part I: Recent Progress
1 Prediction and Prevention: Interventions to Enhance Blood SafetyRoger Y. Dodd
2 Assessing the Threat: Public HealthHans L. Zaaijer
3 Assessing the Threat: Public ConcernAnne Wiles, Judie Leach Bennett, Dana Devine
4 Health Economics in Blood SafetyBrian Custer
5. Decision SystemsPhilip Kiely
Part II: Case Studies
6 HIV and Blood SafetyMrigender Virk, Hua Shan
7 vCJD Case StudiesPatricia Hewitt, Robert Will
8 Case Study: West Nile VirusRoger Y. Dodd
9 Zika VirusLuiz Amorim
Part III: Current Concerns
10 The Emergence of Zoonotic Pathogens as Agents of Concern in Transfusion MedicineLouis M. Katz
11 Tick-Borne Infections: Beware the Tortoises Among UsDavid A. Leiby
Part IV: International Collaboration
12 International Collaboration for Improving Global Blood Safety, and for Monitoring and Responding to Potential Microbial ThreatsJose Ramiro Cruz, Rene Berrios Cruz, Jorge Duque Rodriguez, Silvina Kuperman