The Second Edition of “Perioperative Transfusion Medicine” by Bruce D. Spiess MD, Richard K. Spence, MD, FACS, and Aryeh Shander, MD, FCCM has been released. Thoroughly updated, this volume is the most comprehensive, current reference on perioperative transfusion medicine and coagulation.

It provides complete information on all current blood products and transfusion risks, transfusion and coagulation issues during the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative periods, and specific concerns in each surgical subspecialty. Eighteen new chapters in this edition cover blood shortages, economic concerns, emergency needs, virus transmission, parasitic and septic risks, immunosuppression risks, non-infectious risks, production and storage issues, hemoglobin-based oxygen-carrying solutions, perfluorocarbon-based oxygen-carrying solutions, preoperative platelet phoresis, volume resuscitation, antifibrinolytics, aprotinin, DDAVP, platelet inhibitors, burn patients, and post-surgical stress response.

The book is published by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, and it can be ordered it online through the publisher.