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edited by Bruce D. Spiess, Richard K. Spence, and Aryeh Shander, 2nd ed, 697 pp, with illus, $129, ISBN 0-7817-3755-9, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006.

JAMA. 2006;296:2030-2031.

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"Give blood. Give life."¹ The simplicity of the message belies the complexity of a blood transfusion. In no other area of medicine are large quantities of foreign antigens administered to patients with such frequency as with our current red blood cell transfusion practices. In fact, transfusion could perhaps be considered the most common transplant procedure performed in the United States. According to the Red Cross,² 14 million units of blood were transfused in the United States in 2001 alone, and the demand is growing faster than donations. Demand will further increase as baby boomers age; therefore, transfusion medicine will demand more attention.

The second edition of Perioperative Transfusion Medicine assembles complex interrelated topics that comprehensively cover important aspects of transfusion medicine. The editors have published extensively on transfusion-related issues. The title does not fully reflect the content, as the book takes a broad and comprehensive approach to diverse topics, such . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Colleen Gorman Koch, MD, MS, Reviewer
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio
kochc@ccf.org

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