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Ergebnisse der bluttransfusionsforschung. III
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necrosis present. The mortality rate is given, but the number of animals unaffected by the procedures is not apparent. No statistical testing of the conclusions drawn is included. It is interesting that rats can receive daily an amount of ethanol equal to 10 per cent of their body weight, without evidence of myocardial damage. As a report of the author’s experiences with experimental myocardial necrosis in rats, this volume will be essential to those actively working in this field. Its chief usefulness to the general medical audience lies in the extensive review of the related literature which it contains.
DER BLUTTRANSFUSIONSFORSCHUNG. III. Berichte der 6. Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Bluttransfusion in Kijln vom 30. bis 31. Marz 1957. Vorsitzender, Prof. Dr. H. Schulten, Koln; herausgegeben von PD Dr. W. Achenbach, Kijln. Base1 and New York, 1957, S. Karger (Bibliotheca Haematologica Fast. 6), 261 Seiten, 101 Abbildungen. Price sFr. 32.25.
ERGEBNISSE
This is a complete coverage and up-to-date account of the major and minor aspects of blood banking. The first part of the book deals with the organizational problems of donor procurement in German hospitals and on a larger national scale as exemplified in the Austrian and Czechoslovakian Transfusion Services. The next section is concerned with the general question of blood transfusion and blood volume. There is a full discussion of the relationships between blood loss, blood replacement, and circulatory hemodynamics. The final paper in this section has to do with the factors which determine the amount of blood to be transfused. This important aspect of blood transfusion, i.e., the mechanism of hemorrhagic shock and its treatment with blood transfusion, is handled with clarity and brevity. Reflecting the growing interest in the wider implication of transfusion treatment in respect to the coagulation disorders is the large number of reports in the third section which is entitled “Bluttransfusion und Blutgerinnung” (blood transfusion and blood coagulation). As well as the “classical” bleeding disease, e.g., hemophilia, other more recently described entities, e.g., hypofibrinogenemia as a cause of postpartum hemorrhage, are also considered. The value of fresh blood, because of its content of the various labile coagulation-promoting factors which disappear The role of the platelet in coagulation and the possible rapidly in stored blood, is emphasized. development of platelet antibodies or other immune mechanisms arising following transfusion are also touched upon. The fourth and last section, that on blood transfusion reactions, discusses a problem which is not a frequent one, at least on the North American continent: bacterial contamination of bank blood is only occasionally encountered in our experience. This report of the proceedings of the 6th Meeting of the German Society for Blood Transfusion, held in March, 1957, is an excellent account of the present state of knowledge of blood transfusion in its theoretical and practical aspects.
CARDIAC
ARREST
AND
man, Department St. Louis, MO.,
By Hugh E. Stephenson, Jr., M.D., Professor and Chairof Surgery, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO. 19.58, The C. V. Mosby Company, 400 pages, 31 illustrations. Price $12.00. RESUSCITATION.
A concise summary of knowledge on cardiac arrest and resuscitation should be readily available inside and outside hospitals. This account, written by a surgeon, with assistance from specialists in other fields, is based on more than seventeen hundred cases from the Cardiac Arrest Registry established by the author at the University of Missouri School of Medicine. The historical aspects of this catastrophic but engrossing subject are well presented, and an extensive bibliography (coI!ected by the author and his associates over eight years) should be of great value to all workers in this field. The section on etiology lists a number of causes of cardiac arrest; here and in other parts of the book, benefit might have accrued from close collaboration with an anesthesiologist. While chloroform receives fair but inconclusive consideration, many would not accept the adverse view
BOOK
REVIEWS
Am. Heart 3. May, 1959
necrosis present. The mortality rate is given, but the number of animals unaffected by the procedures is not apparent. No statistical testing of the conclusions drawn is included. It is interesting that rats can receive daily an amount of ethanol equal to 10 per cent of their body weight, without evidence of myocardial damage. As a report of the author’s experiences with experimental myocardial necrosis in rats, this volume will be essential to those actively working in this field. Its chief usefulness to the general medical audience lies in the extensive review of the related literature which it contains.
DER BLUTTRANSFUSIONSFORSCHUNG. III. Berichte der 6. Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Bluttransfusion in Kijln vom 30. bis 31. Marz 1957. Vorsitzender, Prof. Dr. H. Schulten, Koln; herausgegeben von PD Dr. W. Achenbach, Kijln. Base1 and New York, 1957, S. Karger (Bibliotheca Haematologica Fast. 6), 261 Seiten, 101 Abbildungen. Price sFr. 32.25.
ERGEBNISSE
This is a complete coverage and up-to-date account of the major and minor aspects of blood banking. The first part of the book deals with the organizational problems of donor procurement in German hospitals and on a larger national scale as exemplified in the Austrian and Czechoslovakian Transfusion Services. The next section is concerned with the general question of blood transfusion and blood volume. There is a full discussion of the relationships between blood loss, blood replacement, and circulatory hemodynamics. The final paper in this section has to do with the factors which determine the amount of blood to be transfused. This important aspect of blood transfusion, i.e., the mechanism of hemorrhagic shock and its treatment with blood transfusion, is handled with clarity and brevity. Reflecting the growing interest in the wider implication of transfusion treatment in respect to the coagulation disorders is the large number of reports in the third section which is entitled “Bluttransfusion und Blutgerinnung” (blood transfusion and blood coagulation). As well as the “classical” bleeding disease, e.g., hemophilia, other more recently described entities, e.g., hypofibrinogenemia as a cause of postpartum hemorrhage, are also considered. The value of fresh blood, because of its content of the various labile coagulation-promoting factors which disappear The role of the platelet in coagulation and the possible rapidly in stored blood, is emphasized. development of platelet antibodies or other immune mechanisms arising following transfusion are also touched upon. The fourth and last section, that on blood transfusion reactions, discusses a problem which is not a frequent one, at least on the North American continent: bacterial contamination of bank blood is only occasionally encountered in our experience. This report of the proceedings of the 6th Meeting of the German Society for Blood Transfusion, held in March, 1957, is an excellent account of the present state of knowledge of blood transfusion in its theoretical and practical aspects.
CARDIAC
ARREST
AND
man, Department St. Louis, MO.,
By Hugh E. Stephenson, Jr., M.D., Professor and Chairof Surgery, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO. 19.58, The C. V. Mosby Company, 400 pages, 31 illustrations. Price $12.00. RESUSCITATION.
A concise summary of knowledge on cardiac arrest and resuscitation should be readily available inside and outside hospitals. This account, written by a surgeon, with assistance from specialists in other fields, is based on more than seventeen hundred cases from the Cardiac Arrest Registry established by the author at the University of Missouri School of Medicine. The historical aspects of this catastrophic but engrossing subject are well presented, and an extensive bibliography (coI!ected by the author and his associates over eight years) should be of great value to all workers in this field. The section on etiology lists a number of causes of cardiac arrest; here and in other parts of the book, benefit might have accrued from close collaboration with an anesthesiologist. While chloroform receives fair but inconclusive consideration, many would not accept the adverse view