Bleeding Disorders (Fast Facts)

When a physician encounters a bleeding patient, diagnostic and therapeutic steps need to be taken immediately. Fast Facts: Bleeding Disorders provides essential information in a readily accessible format and is designed to swiftly improve patient treatment, management and outcomes. Fast Facts: Bleeding Disorders includes an expert review of normal hemostasis followed by detailed coverage of a wide variety of disorders and their diagnosis and management. Key Points and Key References are included with each chapter and, where appropriate, important clinical features are supported by excellent diagrams, tables and colour illustrations. Fast Facts: Bleeding Disorders is an invaluable resource for primary care physicians, specialist nurses and junior doctors and should be readily available in every practice. Contents Normal hemostasis; Assessment of bleeding symptoms; Vascular purpuras; Platelet disorders; Hemostatic products; Hemophilia; von Willebrand s disease; Uncommon congenital coagulation disorders; Liver and kidney disorders; Pregnancy; Perioperative bleeding; Disseminated intravascular coagulation; Anticoagulants and antithrombotic agents.

David Green MD PhD Professor of Medicine Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University Chicago, Illinois, USA Christopher A Ludlum PhD FRCP FRCPath Professor of Haematology and Coagulation Medicine University of Edinburgh Director of the Haemophilia and Thrombosis Centre Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, UK