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List of contents
Section 1: Logistics and Methodology 1. Responding to a Community’s Need for Therapeutic Hemapheresis 2. The Hospitalized Patient: Interactions with the Apheresis Team 3. Legal Issues Surrounding Therapeutic Hemapheresis 4. Vascular Access 5. Risks and Adverse Reactions Associated with Hemapheresis 6. Therapeutic Pheresis: Precautions and Nursing Interventions 7. Pediatric Considerations 8. Standards and Practices in Therapeutic Hemapheresis – An Overview 9. Standards for Personnel Performing Hemapheresis Therapies Section 2: Technology 10. Centrifugal Equipment for the Performance of Therapeutic Hemapheresis Procedures 11. Membrane Filtration Technology in Plasma Exchange 12. Close-Loop Plasmapheresis Section 3: The Clinical Experience 13. Therapeutic Hemapheresis in the American Red Cross Blood Services 14. Controlled Trials – Necessity and Progress
About the author
James L. MacPherson is currently completing his dissertation research from the George Washington University as a guest worker at the laboratories of the Food and Drug Administration, Office of Biologics Research and review, Division of Blood and Blood Products.
Duke O. Kasprisin, M.D., is Director of the American Red Cross Blood Services, Oklahoma Region.
Summary
First published in 1985: This volume describes the various procedures in Hemapheresis. This a medical technology in which the blood of a person is passed through an apparatus that separates out one particular constituent and returns the remainder to the circulation.
