Blood Component Transfusion -- methods : Making sense of fluids and electrolytes : a hands-on guide / Zoja Milovanovic, Anaesthetic Clinical Fellow, Homerton Hospital London, UK ; Abisola Adeleye, Junior doctor training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the East of England, UK
The transfer of blood components such as erythrocytes, leukocytes, platelets, and plasma from a donor to a recipient or back to the donor. This process differs from the procedures undertaken in PLASMAPHERESIS and types of CYTAPHERESIS; (PLATELETPHERESIS and LEUKAPHERESIS) where, following the removal of plasma or the specific cell components, the remainder is transfused back to the donor
