TraQ Program of the BC PBCO

Blood Safety Standards

Canadian Society for Transfusion Medicine

Standards for Hospital Transfusion Services, Version 3

Canadian Standards Association

CSA Standards for Blood and Blood Components Z902-10

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): IVIG utilization management

Canadian Blood Services (CBS): Clinical Guide to Transfusion (edited by Gwen Clarke and Morris Blajchman)

CBS & NAC

Guidelines for the Use of IVIG for Primary Immune Deficiency and Solid Organ Transplantation Transfus Med Rev: 2010 Jan; 24(1, Suppl1) (edited by Susan Nahirniak and Heather Hume) (select Sample issue online near top) Includes

Shehata N, et al. The use of immunoglobulin therapy for patients with primary immune deficiency: an evidence-based practice guideline

Shehata N, et al. The use of immunoglobulin therapy for patients undergoing solid organ transplantation: an evidence-based practice guideline

CMA 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

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.