This award-winning title offers the medical practitioner and beginning student a fast and systematic way to learn, review, and reference up-to-date information on the fundamentals of blood physiology, immunology, transfusion therapy, and related topics. Beginning with "The Concept of Blood", 18 concise, easy-to-understand chapters, each with self-check questions and answers and clear illustrations, guide the reader through the fascinating topic of blood. Locating hard-to-research topics contained in this title is greatly simplified by numerous quick reference margin words and comprehensive glossary and index. The text's logical approach and an instructor's overhead set make Dailey's Notes on Blood an ideal teaching tool. This popular title is used by nurses, medical students, Red Cross organizations, clinicians, lawyers, and laypeople. It is widely used by major corporations for the training of nontechnical sales personnel and also by laypersons seeking information to enable them to communicate effectively with physicians.