See also 2 accompanying CD-ROMs.

Transfusion in the new millennium -- Red cell production and kinetics -- Regulation of oxygen delivery by red cells and red cell substitutes -- Red cell metabolism and preservation -- Red cell immunology and compatibility testing -- Carbohydrate blood groups -- Rh and LW blood group antigens -- Other protein blood groups -- Anemia and red blood cell transfusion -- Platelet production, kinetics, and hemostasis -- Platelet immunology and alloimmunization -- Preparation, preservation, and storage of platelet concentrates -- Thrombocytopenia and platelet transfusion -- Neutrophil production and kinetics: neutropenia and neutrophilia -- Neutrophil collection and transfusion -- Leukocyte-reduced blood components: laboratory and clinical aspects -- Composition and mechanisms of blood coagulation and fibrinolysis -- Immunoglobulins -- Preparation of plasma derivatives -- Plasma transfusion and use of albumin -- Applications of cellular radiolabeling in transfusion medicine -- Autoimmune hemolytic anemia and paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria -- Management of immune thrombocytopenia -- Bleeding from acquired coagulation defects and antithrombotic therapy -- Fetal and neonatal hematopoiesis -- Obstetric transfusion practice -- Hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn -- Congenital disorders of clotting proteins and hypercoagulable states in pediatrics -- Management of congenital hemolytic anemias -- Blood component transfusions for infants -- Transfusion support for the oncology patient -- Hematopoietic growth factors (cytokines). Hematopoietic progenitor cells: biology and processing -- Hematopoietic progenitor cells: autologous transplantation -- Hematopoietic progenitor cells: allogeneic transplantation -- Umbilical cord blood: a reliable source of stem and progenitor cells for human transplantation -- Alternatives to transfusion: perioperative blood management -- Blood components to achieve hemostasis for surgery and invasive procedures -- Transfusion therapy in the care of trauma and burn patients -- Transfusion therapy in solid-organ transplantation -- Apheresis: principles and technology of hemapheresis -- Therapeutic plasma exchange -- Specialized therapeutic hemapheresis and phlebotomy -- Overview of hemovigilance -- Immunomodulatory and proinflammatory effects of allogeneic blood transfusion -- Transfusion-transmitted hepatitis -- Retroviruses and other viruses -- Transfusion transmission of parasites -- Bacterial contamination of blood products -- Prion diseases -- Pathogen inactivation -- Hemolytic transfusion reactions -- Febrile, allergic, and nonimmune transfusion -- Transfusion-associated graft-vs-host disease -- Transfusional iron overload -- Transfusion-related acute lung injury -- HLA antigens and alleles -- Tissue banking -- Adoptive immunotherapy -- Gene therapy in transfusion medicine -- Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine -- Recruitment and screening of donors and the collection, processing, and testing of blood -- Current legal issues in transfusion medicine -- Current good manufacturing practice -- Transplant organizations and networks in the regulation of cellular therapy programs -- Hospital transfusion committee and quality assurance.