Designed as a practical, succinct guide, for quick reference by clinicians with everyday questions, this title guides the reader through the range of approaches available for diagnosis, management, or prevention of hemorrhagic and thrombotic diseases or disorders.

- Provides essential practical management for all those working in the field of hemostasis and thrombosis
- Includes new chapters on direct oral anticoagulants, acquired inhibitors of coagulation, and expanded discussion of thrombotic microangiopathies
- Covers in a clear and succinct format, the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of thrombotic and haemostatic disorders
- Follows templated chapter formats for rapid referral, including key points and summary boxes, and further reading
- Highlights controversial issues and provides advice for everyday questions encountered in the clinic

CONTENTS:
1. Basic Principles Underlying Coagulation
2. Laboratory tests of hemostasis
3. Molecular diagnostic approaches to hemostasis
4. Tests of platelet function
5. Evaluation of the Bleeding Patient
6. Hemophilia A and B
7. Von Willebrand disease
8. The rarer inherited coagulation disorders
9. Acquired inhibitors of coagulation
10. Quantitative Platelet Disorders
11. Qualitative platelet disorders
12. Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
13. Thrombotic Microangiopathies
14. Venous thromboembolism
15. Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: Thrombosis and Hemorrhage
16. Arterial thrombosis
17. Anticoagulation 1: Heparins and vitamin K antagonists
18. The Direct Oral Anticoagulants
19. Antiphospholipid syndrome
20. Cardiovascular Medicine
21. Cardiothoracic surgery
22. Neurology
23. Hepatology
24. Nephrology
25. Oncology
26. Obstetrics, Contraception and Oestrogen replacement
27. Pediatrics
28. Intensive and critical care
29. Transfusion