Dacie and Lewis Practical Haematology E-Book: Dacie and Lewis Practical Haematology E-Book, Edition 12

Barbara J. Bain · Imelda Bates · Mike A Laffan

Aug 2016 · Elsevier Health Sciences

About this ebook

For more than 65 years, this best-selling text by Drs. Barbara J. Bain, Imelda Bates, and Mike A. Laffan has been the worldwide standard in laboratory haematology. The 12th Edition of Dacie and Lewis Practical Haematology continues the tradition of excellence with thorough coverage of all of the techniques used in the investigation of patients with blood disorders, including the latest technologies as well as traditional manual methods of measurement. You’ll find expert discussions of the principles of each test, possible causes of error, and the interpretation and clinical significance of the findings.

• A unique section on haematology in under-resourced laboratories.
• Ideal as a laboratory reference or as a comprehensive exam study tool.

• diagnosis, molecular testing, blood transfusion- and much more.
• Complete coverage
of the latest advances in the field.
• An expanded section on coagulation now covers testing for new anticoagulants and includes clinical applications of the tests.

About the author

Professor Bain's research interests are ethnic and other biological differences in haematological variables and cytogenetics in relation to haematological malignancy. She has a major interest in teaching, both undergraduate and postgraduate, as well as in the development of teaching resources such as videos, slide sets, websites and CD-ROMs and the development of teaching courses for haematologists, haematology trainees haematopathologists, medical laboratory scientists and cytogeneticists. Amongst other collaborations with experts in the field, she has devised the WHO classification of tumours of the lymphoid haemopoietic systems.