Transfusion medicine
The Transfusion Medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the manufacture, efficacy, safety and tolerability of allogenic blood and tissue products , and the compatibility of allogenic organ and stem cell transplants busy.
Transfusion medicine includes the production of blood and other blood products, the maintenance of blood banks and the provision of blood products for the respective specialist areas, especially in surgery , emergency medicine and oncology . In addition, transfusion medicine deals with immunohematology and the diagnosis of various hematological diseases.
Many transfusion medicine institutes have their own blood donation centers .
The specialist in transfusion medicine
In order to work as a specialist in transfusion medicine after completing a medical degree in Germany , a five-year training period with a training officer at a training facility in accordance with Section 5 (1) sentence 1 of the training regulations is required:
- 3 years of transfusion medicine in transfusion services or transfusion medicine institutes, can be credited to this
- 12 months of laboratory medicine or
- 6 months in microbiology , (virology) and infection epidemiology .
- 24 months in inpatient patient care in the field of anesthesiology or surgery or gynecology or cardiac surgery or internal medicine and general medicine or pediatric surgery or laboratory medicine or orthopedics or plastic surgery or urology (6 months of which can be completed in the outpatient area).
One year can be served with a resident doctor.
On January 1, 2001 , 506 transfusion specialists were registered, of which 21 were resident doctors. 80 did not do any medical work.
Situation in other countries
- Denmark
In Denmark the content is covered by the subject "Clinical Immunology".
- Norway
In Norway , the contents belong to the specialist in "Immunology and Transfusion Medicine"
- United Kingdom
In the UK, transfusion medicine is a sub-specialization of hematology .
- Netherlands
In the Netherlands there is a specialist in donor medicine (Donorgeneeskunde) who is a specialist in the field of public health (Maatschappij en Gezondheid). Sub-areas are covered by the hematology department.
literature
- Markus Vieten: career planner doctor . Via medici book series, Thieme Verlag , ISBN 3-13-116105-1
- Christian Mueller-Eckhardt: Transfusion Medicine . Springer-Verlag , ISBN 3-540-00991-4
Web links
- Bavarian State Medical Association for specialist training (PDF file; 241 kB)
- Volker Kiefel, Andreas Greinacher: Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology . (PDF file, 1.3 MB), extensive script
- Lecture of the Institute for Clinical Transfusion Medicine and Haemotherapy Würzburg on the history of transfusion medicine