Description: Quick Guide to Hemostasis and Transfusion Medicine is a patient reference that recommends indication-based laboratory test selection and interpretation to diagnose and treat hemorrhagic and thrombotic disorders using blood components, biologics, and synthetic therapeutics. The book introduces hemostasis and transfusion medicine for students, residents, and fellows, supplementing standard texts. It uses headings, bulletpoints, telegraphic syntax, tables, figures, and speedy lookup features and is an essential quick reference for health care providers who order, perform, and interpret hemostasis and immunohematology assays and administer hemostasis therapy.
Brief description: Dr. George Fritsma manages www.fritsmafactor.com, "The Fritsma Factor, Your Interactive Hemostasis Resource," an educational blog supported by Precision BioLogic Inc, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Dr. Fritsma also consults for the Laboratory Solutions Program for Developing Nations, supported by BioMedica Diagnostics, Inc., Windsor, Nova Scotia. He is a consultant for the Laboratory Medicine Division of the Pathology Department, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, where he provides lectures for pathology residents and for hematology fellows. He is an adjunct Associate Professor for Michigan State and Rutgers University.
George chairs the American Association for Clinical Chemistry Press Board and is a consulting editor for the Clinical Laboratory Science journal and is a member of the International Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis and the International Society for Laboratory Hematology.