Haematology: A Core Curriculum Bain, Barbara Jane

This textbook is written by a renowned haematologist with more than 30 years of experience in teaching haematology to medical students and whose pedagogical and writing skills are widely admired within the field. Following closely the current curriculum of Imperial College London, medical students, trainee nurses and biomedical science students from other institutions will find the textbook equally suitable, since it includes the core student haematology curriculum as recommended by the Royal College of Pathologists and the British Society of Haematology expert group. This text will be equally suitable for students outside the UK. The textbook takes a useful, practical approach, incorporating self-evaluation questions and learning objectives that give students not only the information needed to understand the topic but also clear indications on the core knowledge that students are required to know in order to progress within the field of haematology.

Free Worldwide Delivery : Dacie and Lewis Practical Haematology : Mixed media product : Elsevier Health Sciences : 9780702034084 : 0702034088 : 01 Jan 2012 : Covers the techniques used in the investigation of patients with blood disorders. This title discusses the principles of various tests, possible causes of error, the rationale for choosing one method over another and the interpretation, significance and clinical relevance of these findings.

Blood Cells has been written with both the practising haematologist and the trainee in mind. It aims to provide a guide for use in the diagnostic haematology laboratory, covering methods of collection of blood specimens, blood film preparation and staining, the principles of manual and automated blood counts and the assessment of the morphological features of blood cells. The practising haematologist should find this book sufficiently comprehensive to be a reference source while, at the same time, the trainee haematologist and biomedical scientist should find it a straightforward and practical bench manual.Enables both the haematologist and laboratory scientist to identify blood cell features, from the most common to the more obscureProvides essential information on methods of collection, blood film preparation and staining, together with the principles of manual and automated blood counts Completely revised and updated, incorporating much newly published informati

This unique book is written by Barbara Bain, a leading haematologist with a reputation for her educational prowess in the field. It provides a concise overview of the haemoglobinopathies and focuses on the selection, performance, and interpretation of relevant laboratory tests. The tests dealt with are mainly those done regularly in diagnostic haematology laboratories. Where more specialist tests are required, the reader is given an overview of what the specialist centre will do, with guidance on what the result will imply. This book is extremely practical in orientation and is an essential reference volume in the haematology laboratory.Haemoglobinopathy Diagnosis is ideal for:Trainees and residents in haematologyHematologists in practiceLaboratory scientistsWhy Buy This Book?New Edition - Fully updated, with 43 new pictures and 37 pages of illustrated clinical cases to use for teaching and self-evaluationEssential reference volume for the haematology laboratoryFocuses on diagnosisVery practical in its approachIn addition to the self-assessment case studies, contains "test your knowledge" sections at the end of every chapterRemarkably comprehensive for a compact book