Transfusion Medicine

A physician who looks after the maintenance of an adequate blood supply, blood donor and patient-recipient safety is specialized in transfusion medicine. It deals with the issues of clinical transfusion practices, immunohematology, blood donation and other clinical tests for transfusion transmittable diseases, patient blood management, therapeutic apheresis, cellular therapy and coagulation. Blood Transfusion is a medical procedure where donated blood is transfused to a recipient. Blood transfusion helps patients to survive from iron deficiency Anaemia, Sickle cell ailment and haemorrhage. The requirement of blood is progressively growing even though some branches of medicine have brought down its certainty. The transfusion medicine specialists predict good scenarios by the year 2025, at best in the developing countries.