Acknowledgements

We are indebted to many of our colleagues for providing helpful suggestions and for proofreading the text. In particular we wish to thank Dr Helen McCarthy, Specialist Registrar in Haematology; Dr Jo Piercy, Specialist Registrar in Haematology; Dr Tanay Sheth, SHO in Haematology, Southampton; Sisters Clare Heather and Ann Jackson, Haematology Day Unit, Southampton General Hospital; Dr Mike Williams, Specialist Registrar in Anaesthetics; Dr Frank Boulton, Wessex Blood Transfusion Service, Southampton; Dr Paul Spargo, Consultant Anaesthetist, Southampton University Hospitals; Dr Sheila Bevin, Staff Grade Paediatrician; Dr Mike Hall, Consultant Neonatologist; Dr Judith Marsh, Consultant Haematologist, St George’s Hospital, London; Joan Newman, Haematology Transplant Coordinator, Southampton; Professor Sally Davies, Consultant Haematologist, Imperial College School of Medicine, Central Middlesex Hospital, London; Dr Denise O’Shaughnessy, Consultant Haematologist, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust; Dr Kornelia Cinkotai, Consultant Haematologist, Barts and The London NHS Trust; Dr Mansel Haeney, Consultant Immunologist, Hope Hospital, Salford; Dr Adam Mead, Specialist Registrar Barts and The London; Dr Chris Knechtli, Consultant Haematologist, Royal United Hospital, Bath; Dr Toby Hall, Consultant Radiologist, Royal United Hospital Bath, Craig Lewis, Senior Biomedical Scientist, Royal United Hospital Bath, Bob Maynard, Senior Biomedical Scientist, Royal United Hospital Bath and Rosie Simpson, Senior Pharmacist, Royal United Hospital Bath. We would like to thank Alastair Smith, Morag Chisholm and Andrew Duncombe for their contributions to the first edition of the handbook. Three Barts & The London SpRs helped edit some of the sections of 3e, namely Drs John de Vos, Tom Butler and Jay Pandya. Dr Jim Murray, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, corrected the Haematological Emergencies section, though he did this in error since he was supposed to be proof-reading something completely different but he was too polite to say anything (bless).

We would like to acknowledge the patience and forbearance of our wives and families for the months of neglect imposed by the work on this edition. Warm thanks, as ever, are extended to Oxford University Press, and in particular Catherine Barnes, Senior Commissioning Editor for Medicine, Elizabeth Reeve, Commissioning Editor, Beth Womack, Managing Editor, and Kate Wilson, Production Manager. We fell behind schedule with this edition and are grateful to the whole OUP team for bearing with us so patiently and not harassing us! We apologize for anyone omitted but this is entirely unintentional.