Standards

Canadian Society for Transfusion Medicine: Standards for Hospital Transfusion Services, Version 2

Canadian Standards Association: CAN/CSA Z902-04. Blood and blood components (being revised)

Health Canada: Stakeholder Consultation on the Proposed Regulatory Framework for Blood and Blood Components (March - November 2007)

Transfusion Guidelines

BC Provincial Blood Coordinating Office (PBCO) (l)

• IVIG utilization management

Canadian Blood Services

• Clinical Guide to Transfusion (edited by Gwen Clarke and Morris Blajchman)

Canadian Medical Association Expert Working Group: Guidelines for red blood cell and plasma transfusion for adults and children. CMAJ 1997;156(11 suppl)

Canadian Pediatric Society: Red blood cell transfusions in newborn infants: Revised guidelines. Paediatrics & Child Health 2002; 7(8): 553–8.

Public Health Agency of Canada: Guideline for investigation of suspected transfusion transmitted bacterial contamination CCDR 2008;34S1:1–8.

Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada

• Prevention of Rh alloimmunization (Sept. 2003)
  • Medline abstract
• Gynaecological and obstetric management of women with inherited bleeding disorders (July 2005)

Miscellaneous

• Droubatchevskaia N, Wong MP, Chipperfield KM, Wadsworth LD , Ferguson DJ. Guidelines for cryoprecipitate transfusion. BCMJ 2007 Oct; 49(8): 441–-5.
• Tinmouth A, MacDougall M, Fergusson D, Amin M, Graham ID, Hebert PC, Kumanan Wilson K. Reducing the amount of blood transfused. A systematic review of behavioral interventions to change physicians’ transfusion practices. Arch Intern Med 2005 Apr 25;165(8):845–52.