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• TraQ & BC PBCO
• Global News
• Diseases in the News
• Industry News
• Resource Library/Links
• Journals / Newsletters / Posters / Books
• Archive

Collaborating sites

Canadian Society of Transfusion Medicine

Canada's Transfusion Safety Officers

California Blood Bank Society

TraQ & BC PBCO

• TraQ's February - March newsletter
• TMS Documents - Processes | Mini-Case B7 (Case of a disappearing antibody)

Global News

Canadian News

• "Héma-Québec pays tribute to Dr. Francine Décary: an outstanding woman" (Dr. Décary to leave H-Q) (11 Mar. 2011)
• Dr. Jean De Serres named new President & CEO of Héma-Québec (18 Mar. 2011)
• Ministers of Health announce Canada's 1st national, publicly-funded umbilical cord blood bank (14 Mar. 2011)
• CBS lifetime achievement award nomination (Deadline: 31 May 2011)
• Also see Mansouri, et al. in Journals below
• CE/CPD:
  • BloodTechnet's Learning Competition (Check out which projects go to next round)
  • 2011 CSTM Conference (Toronto, ON)

International News

• General
  • Summary - significant changes to AABB Standards for Blood Banks and Transfusion Services, ed 27
  • Ricco to quit cycling after being fired from Dutch team (12 Mar. 2011)
    • Background:  Did Italian cyclist Ricco have a life-threatening bacteriogenic transfusion reaction to self-administered blood transfusion? (10 Feb. 2011)
• Spain: Grifols establishes Expert Advisory Council in Transfusion Medicine (7 Mar. 2011)
• UK
• Scottish team gets funding boost to research producing red cells from stem cells (16 Mar. 2011)
• Union 'Unite' warns against privatising part of the NBS (4 Mar. 2011)
• USA
  • Battle over financial incentives for bone marrow donors (1 Mar. 2011)
    • Lawsuit slams ban on bone marrow sales (25 Feb. 2011)
    • Background: Patients sue U.S. Attorney General in bid to remove ban on compensating bone marrow donors (28 Oct. 2009)
  • Also see HIV below

**Also see TraQ's Canadian Regional News and International News

Diseases in the News

Emerging infectious diseases

• AABB infectious disease fact sheets
  • Also see Emerging infectious disease agents (inc. fact sheets updated Dec. 2010)
• TraQ's emerging infectious diseases clearinghouse
• CBBS: Emerging Infectious Diseases
• AABB: US biovigilance network

HIV/AIDS

• Kidney transplant recipient infected with HIV from live donor (20 Mar. 2011)
• HIV transmitted from a living organ donor --- New York City, 2009. MMWR 2011 Mar 18;60(10);297?301.

XMRV/CFS

•  XMRV & the blood supply: More study needed (7 Mar. 2011)

Industry News

• Japan's Terumo to buy US rival CaridianBCT from Sweden's Gambro for $2.6 billion (7 Mar. 2011)
• Spain's Grifols establishes Expert Advisory Council in Transfusion Medicine  (7 Mar. 2011)
  • See who's on it

**Also see TraQ's Industry News

Resource Library / Links

 Canada  -  BC PBCO

• TMS Documents - Processes | Laboratory Quality Manual
• Technical Operations Manual
  • 21 processes, procedures, & training/competency docs
  • Common procedures

BloodTechnet's Learning Competition

Blood Bank Guy's 2011 lecture notes

Musings on Transfusion Medicine (blog):  

Cultivate, convert, and cloak 'em - Sweet dreams? (Musings on chasing the 'holy grails' of blood transfusion)

**See TraQ's Resource Library | Nursing resources | Literature clearinghouses | Links | Continuing education | Job section | Video library

Journals / Newsletters / Posters / Books

free full text    (*  1 or more Canadian authors)

• Immunohematology (ARC): Back issues
• Transfusion (AABB): Current issue
  • Transfusion archives now available from 1961 to present
  • Journal of Blood Services Management (quarterly with Transfusion)
• Transfusion Alternatives in Transfusion Medicine (NATA): Current issue
• Transfusion Medicine (BBTS):Current issue | Sample  issue
• Transfusion Medicine Reviews: Current issue | Sample issue
• Vox Sang (ISBT): Current issue

Book review: "Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution" by Holly Tucker (12 Mar. 2011) | Author interview (PLoS blog)

Chang CS, Lin YC, Wu YC, Yeh CJ, Lin YC. The effects of a computerized transfusion decision support system on physician compliance and its appropriateness for fresh frozen plasma use in a medical center. Am J Clin Pathol 2011 Mar;135(3):417-22.

Isbister JP, Shander A, Spahn DR, Erhard J, Farmer SL, Hofmann A. Adverse blood transfusion outcomes: establishing causation. Trans Med Rev 2011 Apr; 25,(2): 89-101.

*  Mansouri S, Merhi Y, Winnik FM, Tabrizian M. Investigation of layer-by-layer assembly of polyelectrolytes on fully functional human red blood cells in suspension for attenuated immune response. Biomacromolecules 2011 (Published 9 Feb. 2011)

• Immunocamouflage system may advance research into blood transfusions that require no typing (11 Mar. 2011)
• Bloody camouflage: NMR assists 'universal donor blood' (15 Mar. 2011)
• Mark Scott of CBS explains immunocamouflage (NPR interview, 18 Mar. 2011) Also see TM blog

Samot J, Moon S, Shao L, Zhang X, Xu F, et al. Blood Banking in living droplets. PLoS ONE 2011 Mar 11; 6(3): e17530. (full free text)

Wong KF. Virtual blood bank. J Pathol Inform 2011 Jan 24;2:6. (full free text)

**Also see TraQ's Literature clearinghouses