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TraQ & BC PBCO
- TraQ's January newsletter
- TMS Documents - Processes | Mini-Case B7 (Case of a disappearing antibody)
Global News
Canadian News
- CHS grades Canada's blood supply (27 Jan. 2011)
- CE/CPD:
- BloodTechnet's Learning Competition (Check out the ideas!)
- 2011 CSTM Conference (Toronto, ON)
International News
- General: Did Italian cyclist Ricco have a life-threatening bacteriogenic transfusion reaction to self-administered blood transfusion? (10 Feb. 2011)
- Australian Blood Authority: Perioperative module of the Patient Blood Management Guideline (Open for comment: Feb.7?Apr.1, 2011)
- China: Govt.-supported documentary exposes AIDS discrimination (19 Feb. 2011)
- NZ
- Blood Service reports blood stocks adequate following Christchurch earthquake & urges media to check with them before running a quote or report (23 Feb. 2011)
- Patient received blood that later tested positive for anti-malarial antibodies (19 Feb. 2011)
- New Zealand Blood Services upgrades to e-Progesa
- Upgrade involves switch from Sun to IBM (8 Feb. 2011)
- UK: Govt. considers outsourcing parts of National Blood Service to for-profit sector - How will donors react? (16 Feb. 2011)
**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
Chagas
- Trivedi M, Sanghavi D. Knowledge deficits regarding Chagas disease may place Mexico's blood supply at risk. Transfus Apher Sci. 2010 Oct;43(2):193?6.
XMRV/CFS
- AABB statement on XMRV (10 Feb. 2011)
- XMRV-An emerging infection case study ('Blood Bank Guy' blog, 9 Feb. 2011)
vCJD
- vCJD blood test developed by UK researchers has potential to screen blood donors
- Edgeworth JA, et al. Detection of prion infection in variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: blood-based assay. The Lancet 2011 Feb 5; 377(9764):487?93.
Industry News
**Also see TraQ's Industry News
Resource Library / Links
Canada - BC PBCO
BloodTechnet's Learning Competition
Musings on Transfusion Medicine (blog):
'Tough Titty' and other iPad apps (Musing on 'revolutionary' apps for TM)
**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
- 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
Transfusion Ontario: * ORBCoN Report, Feb. 2011 now available (focus is on IVIG). Sign up here under Quick Links (requires only an e-mail address)
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.
Trivedi M, Sanghavi D. Knowledge deficits regarding Chagas disease may place Mexico's blood supply at risk. Transfus Apher Sci. 2010 Oct;43(2):193-6.
**Also see TraQ's Literature clearinghouses
