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What's New - April 2012 (By topic)

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Collaborating Sites: CSTM | Canada's TSOs | California Blood Bank Society

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Global News

General

• XIV^th International Haemovigilance Seminar (April 25-27, 2012, Montreal, Canada) First time outside Europe
• AABB releases Clinical Practice Guideline on Red Cell Transfusion | Full free text articles:
  • Carson JL, Grossman BJ, Kleinman S, Tinmouth AT, Marques MB, Fung MK, et al. Red blood cell transfusion: a clinical practice guideline from the AABB. Ann Intern Med. 2012.
  • Vincent J-L. Indications for blood transfusions: too complex to base on a single number? (ed) Ann Int Med 2012 Mar 26.
• CBBS Today; 2012, Vol. XXX, No. 2 - 1^st of 3 Special Issues (free to all) to commemorate anniversary of disastrous earthquake & tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011

Canada

• BC PBCO: "Transfusion Reaction Education" (Begins April 2012) 
  • 6 module online educational program now open to all physicians, nurses, and medical laboratory technologists
• Health Canada Notice to Stakeholders – Publication of Proposed Blood Regulations and amendments to the Food and Drugs Act and Regulations in Canada Gazette, Part I (Comments accepted to 17 May 2012)
  • Avis aux intervenants - Publication du projet de Règlement sur le sang et des modifications à la Loi sur les aliments et drogues et au Règlement sur les aliments et drogues dans la partie I de la Gazette du Canada
• CBS decides to close Thunder Bay plasma centre
  • CBS to close Thunder Bay Plasma Centre (29 Mar. 2012) (2 weeks notice to staff?)
    • Tainted management (Letters to editor, 11 April 2012)
    • In the interest of safe blood (10 April 2012)
    • Claims of CBS deceit in citing reduced demand without mentioning buying plasma from USA (9 Apr. 2012)
    • A bloody shame (newspaper editorial) (4 Apr. 2012)
    • No one saw this coming (letter to editor) (4 Apr. 2012) | Quote: Their reason for not informing anyone earlier? Coun. Larry Hebert said CBS officials told him "it would be better for staff."
    • Thunder Bay fights to keep plasma centre (3 April 2012)
    • Threat of closure always existed (former CBS employee's letter to editor)
  • Current State of Knowledge for IVIG Use and Mechanism (CBS-sponsored symposium, 8 Sept. 2012)
  • CSTM's redesigned website
  • Bloodtechnet learning competition | New timeline

  Australia

  • Robert (Bob) Dunstan, Head of the School of Biomedical Sciences, Curtin University, passed away 16 Dec. 2010. (My apologies for the late notice, but I corresponded with Bob periodically and he was a generous colleague whom I greatly admired.)
  • National Blood Authority:
    • Module 4 – Critical Care (Available for comment 26 March – 18 May 2012)
    • Patient Blood Management Guidelines: Module 2 Perioperative & its Quick Reference Guide now available in hard copy (23 Mar. 2012)
      • Order copies free of charge from NBA website
    • Module 2 Perioperative (9 Mar. 2012)
      • 2nd of 6 modules focusing on evidence-based patient blood management
      • Includes Quick Reference Guide & Preoperative Haemoglobin Assessment and Optimisation template

  Russia

  • Blood donor ad by blood transfusion service Answers the question, "So why do we live?" (Cute promo - 1min 17 sec video)

  UK

  • DOH: Clinical guidelines for immunoglobulin use, ed. 2 update (July 2011) | Summary poster
  • New WNV test for blood donors after international travel (NBSBT press release, 28 Mar. 2012)
    • Related news item

  USA

  • Organ donor's surgery death sparks questions (8 Apr. 2012)
  • Blood business gets more cutthroat: HCA & its 5 local hospitals drop Virginia Blood Services for ARC (22 Mar. 2012)

  Industry news

  • Bio-Rad co-founder David Schwartz dead at 88 (1 Apr. 2012) Idea that led to he & his wife creating Bio-Rad came about during a student bridge game in 1952
  • Pharma's influence over published clinical evidence (4 Apr. 2012)
  • Big Pharma spends over €40 million/yr lobbying in EU (7 Apr. 2012)

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  Diseases in the news

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  Resource Library / Links

  TraQ's February newsletter

  NEW TM blog:

  • While my guitar gently weeps (Musings on CBS's ongoing behavior)

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  Journals, etc.

  Free full text papers | * 1 or more Canadian authors

  • AABB releases Clinical Practice Guideline on Red Cell Transfusion
    • * Carson JL, Grossman BJ, Kleinman S, Tinmouth AT, Marques MB, Fung MK, et al. Red blood cell transfusion: a clinical practice guideline from the AABB. Ann Intern Med. 2012.
    • Vincent J-L. Indications for blood transfusions: too complex to base on a single number? (ed) Ann Int Med 2012 Mar 26.
    • * Carson JL, Grossman BJ, Kleinman S, Tinmouth AT, Marques MB, Fung MK, et al. Red blood cell transfusion: a clinical practice guideline from the AABB. Ann Intern Med. 2012.
    • Vincent J-L. Indications for blood transfusions: too complex to base on a single number? (ed) Ann Int Med 2012 Mar 26.
  • * Ching E. Solid Phase Red Cell Adherence Assay: A tubeless method for pretransfusion testing and other applications in transfusion science. Transfus Apher Sci. 2012 Apr 2. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Garza MN, Pulido LA, Amerson M, Ali FA, Greenhill BA, Griffin G, et al. A professional development model for medical laboratory scientists working in the immunohematology laboratory. Clin Lab Sci. 2012 Winter;25(1):2-6.
  • * Hannon JL. Management of blood donors and blood donations from individuals found to have a positive direct antiglobulin test. Transfus Med Reviews 2012 Apr;26(2):142-52. (Pub. online 17 Oct. 2011)
  • * Owens W, Gagliardi K, Lauzon D. Building better hospital transfusion committees for Ontario. Transfus Apher Sci. 2012 Apr 1. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Pandit TN, Sarode R. Blood component support in acquired coagulopathic conditions: Is there a method to the madness? Am J Hematol. 2012 Mar 12. doi: 10.1002/ajh.23179. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Sandler SG, Li W, Langeberg A, Landy HJ. New laboratory procedures and Rh blood type changes in a pregnant woman. Obstet Gynecol. 2012 Feb;119(2 Pt 2):426-8.
  • * Squires A, Nasef N, Lin Y, Callum J, Khadawardi EM, Drolet C, Core D, Simmons B. Hemolytic disease of the newborn caused by anti-wright (anti-wra): case report and review of literature. Neonatal Netw. 2012 Mar 1;31(2):69-80.
  • Win N, Needs M, Rahman S, Gold P, Ward S. An unusual case of an acute hemolytic transfusion reaction caused by an autoanti-I. Immunohematology. 2011;27(3):101-3.