English | 2024 | PDF | 22 MB | 315 Pages
Zdravko Kvržić, 3031687140, 3031687159, 9783031687143, 9783031687150, 978-3031687143, 978-3031687150
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!
