Overview
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!
Full Product Details
Author: Zdravko Kvržić
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Edition: 2024 ed.
ISBN: 9783031687143
ISBN 10: 3031687140
Pages: 311
Publication Date: 19 December 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
Availability: Not yet available
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Author Information
Mr. Zdravko Kvržić enrolled in the 4-year program to become a practical nurse at the secondary school of nursing, which he successfully completed in 2006. He then enrolled in a three-year first-cycle professional higher education study program in nursing at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Ljubljana, where he graduated in 2010. The topic of his thesis was Nursing care of a patient after implantation of a total hip endoprothesis in the intensive care unit. Mr. Kvržić is a member of the Nurses and Midwives Association of Slovenia since 2011. He is a licensed registered nurse with many years of professional experience in the field of blood donation, working at the Blood Transfusion Center of Slovenia since 2011 and in 2017 he became the head nurse of the plasmapheresis section, which is an organizational unit of the Center for Blood Donor Selection and Blood Collection of the Department of Blood Supply.
