In caring for sick animals, all veterinarians eventually find themselves faced with a patient that has anemia of such severity as to require a blood transfusion. Access to blood products has improved in the past few years. Veterinary blood banks can supply canine, feline, and even ferret blood within 24 hours via overnight mail.

Martha Cannon from the Oxford Cat Clinic examined the benefits and the dangers of blood transfusions in cats at the FAB Conference 2008. As usual, transfusions are not as straightforward in feline patients as they are in canine or human ones! A BLOOD TRANSFUSION can be a life-saving procedure.

Cómo y cuando hacer transfusiones sanguíneas en pequeños animales.

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Knowledge of the cat has advanced rapidly in the 9 years since the second edition of Feline Medicine and Therapeutics was published. The primary object of this book remains the same however - to help veterinary surgeons and students to practise the art and science of feline medicine.

Explica como se debe realizar una transfusión sanguínea, así como los diferentes grupos sanguíneos, las reacciones del paciente tras una transfusión y los componentes sanguíneos.

Patología Médica Veterinaria : Libro de Texto Para la Docencia de la Asignatura pág. 168-170