Emerging Legal Issues in Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine (Hardcover)

Reviewing legal issues that involve blood banking and transfusion medicine, this book is written for lawyers and non-lawyers alike. The text is split into two parts: part one explores liability issues facing blood banks, hospitals, and physicians and the changing standard of care. The author links the change to the advent of HIV-related cases, transfusion-transmitted disease litigation, testing and notification issues, alternate services and products, emerging technologies and blood shield statutes, and alternative dispute resolution. Part two deals with economic and regulatory issues, including antitrust law and the provision of blood services, employee obligations, the impact of congressional and agency investigations and reports, and the regulation of computer software.