Blood and Blood Products: Safety and Risk -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- I Current Risks of Disease Transmission -- Blood and Blood Components: How Safe Are They Today? -- Viral Inactivation of Blood Products: A General Overview -- TRANSFUSION PLASMA -- BLOOD CELL CONCENTRATES -- RED BLOOD CELL CONCENTRATES -- PLATELET CONCENTRATES -- II Guarding the Blood Supply -- The Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study: Rationale and Methods -- Demographic and Serologic Characteristics of Volunteer Blood Donors -- CDC Surveillance of Donors -- DISCUSSION -- Surveillance of Recipients -- DISCUSSION -- CDC Surveillance of High-Risk Recipients -- DISCUSSION -- CDC Surveillance for Unknown Pathogens -- DISCUSSION -- III New Ideas for Safety and Monitoring -- Information Technology and Blood Safety -- Strategies for Dealing with Potentially Infected Recipients -- IV Risk Tolerance -- Beneficial Aspects of Surgical Transfusion -- Trade-off of the Risk of Hepatitis and the Benefit of Clotting Factor Concentrates in the 1970s and 1980s -- DISCUSSION -- Examples of Risks That We Tolerate -- DISCUSSION -- V Risk Communication -- A Mental Model Approach to Risk Communication -- DISCUSSION -- Risk Communication: Building Credibility -- ROLE OF INFORMATION -- THE ROLE OF RISK NUMBERS -- THE ROLE OF RISK COMPARISONS -- SOURCES OF CONFLICT -- DISCUSSION -- Attitudes Toward Risk: The Right to Know and the Right to Give Informed Consent -- DISCUSSION -- Patients, Informed Consent, and the Health Care Team -- DISCUSSION -- Communication of Risk and Uncertainty to Patients -- DISCUSSION -- VI No-Fault Insurance -- Administrative and "No-Fault" Systems for Compensating Medically Related Injuries -- The Colorado and Utah Models of Compensating Patient Injury -- DISCUSSION -- VII Concluding Remarks -- Henrik H. Bendixen -- Appendixes.

A Acronyms and Abbreviations -- B Workshop Participants -- WORKSHOP ON BLOOD BANK OPERATIONS July 23-24, 1994 -- WORKSHOP ON RISK AND REGULATION July 23-24, 1995 -- WORKSHOP ON MANAGING THREATS TO THE BLOOD SUPPLY September 21-22, 1995.