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What's New - September 2011 (By topic)

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Index: TraQ & BC PBCO | Global News | Diseases | Industry News | Resource Library | Journals

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

TraQ & BC PBCO:

• 'Technical Operations Manual' (27 Sept. 2011): TR 0002. Evaluating the forms, samples and components/products involved in an acute transfusion reaction investigation, v 2.0
• Transfusion reaction education for BC pathologists (Oct. - Dec. 2011)
• Joint PBCO/CBS presentations (28 Sept. 2011, Castelgar, BC):
  • Massive transfusion protocol in trauma (Maureen Wyatt)
  • Working through blood transfusion challenges in rural hospitals (Cathy Lee)
  • Exercise Red Snow (Susanna Darnel)
  • CBS diagnostic services (Tony Dolnik)

| TraQ's August newsletter | BC PBCO | Education Session on Blood Transfusion Issues (Sept. 28, 2011 in Castlegar, BC)

Global News

General

• AABB meeting at a glance (What's hot & not in San Diego, Oct. 22–25, 2011)
• Woolly mammoth's secrets for surviving cold suggests new Hb-based O₂ carrier for hypothermic surgery (15 Sept. 2011)
  • Wooly mammoth blood in news again (15 Sept. 2011) (Commentary on how scientific news is reported from MIT)
  • Yuan Y, et al. A biochemical–biophysical study of hemoglobins from woolly mammoth, Asian elephant, and humans. Biochemistry, 2011:50 (34): 7350–60.
• Autologous blood test could be in place for London 2012 Olympics (12 Sept. 2011)
• In Memoriam: Douglas Surgenor, PhD, pioneer in blood collection & transfusion methods (1 Sept. 2011)
  • For history buffs, fascinating look at early research:
  • Rosen FS. Book Review: 'Edwin J. Cohn and the development of protein chemistry' By Douglas M. Surgenor. N Engl J Med 2003 Jul 31; 349:511-2.
  • Creager ANH. What blood told Dr Cohn': World War II, plasma fractionation, and the growth of human blood research. Stud Hist Phil Biol & Biomed Sci 1999; 30(3):377-405.

Canada

• Education Session on Blood Transfusion Issues (Sept. 28, 2011 in Castlegar, BC)
• BC PBCO:
  • Transfusion reaction education for BC pathologists (Oct. - Dec. 2011)
  • 'Technical Operations Manual' (27 Sept. 2011): TR 0002. Evaluating the forms, samples and components/products involved in an acute transfusion reaction investigation, v 2.0

India

• Investigation into child HIV cases after blood transfusions (12 Sept. 2011)

Ireland

• IBTS retains exclusion of MSM blood donors (12 Sept. 2011)
  • ISBT policy & rationales

UK

• Lifetime blood donor ban on gay men to be lifted (8 Sept. 2011)
  • DOH press release (8 Sept. 2011)
• IBMS Congress: Transfusion Science program (26–28 Sept. 2011, Birmingham, UK)
  • Interesting to see what others present at annual meetings

USA

• CDC blood safety website
• Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA) recommendations to reduce transfusion-associated hyperkalemia
  • SPA recommendations (16 Aug. 2011)
• AABB meeting at a glance (What's hot & not in San Diego, Oct. 22–25, 2011)
• FDA found problems at new ARC blood centers (chronic under-staffing, inadequate training, quality-assurance lapses, & ineffective management) (1 Sept. 2011)

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

Industry news

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Diseases in the news

Babesiosis

• Herwaldt BL, Linden JV, Bosserman E, Yond C, Olkowska D, Wilson M. Transfusion-associated babesiosis in the United States: A description of cases. Ann Intern Med 2011; 155. Pub. online 5 Sept. 2011. (full free text)
  • Leiby DA. Transfusion-associated babesiosis: Shouldn't we be ticked off? (editorial) Ann Intern Med 2011 (full free text)

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Resource Library / Links

BC PBCO TTISS - V2.0 docs - 'TTI 0001. Quick Reference Guide - Response to Transfusion Reaction' & model 'Transfusion Reaction Report Forms' (18 Aug. 2011)

'Technical Operations Manual': TR 0002. Evaluating the forms, samples and components/products involved in an acute transfusion reaction investigation, v 2.0 (27 Sept. 2011)

TM blog: With love from me to you - Blood buddies (Musings on staff shortages & succession planning in transfusion medicine)

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Journals / Newsletters / Posters / Books

• Herwaldt BL, Linden JV, Bosserman E, Yond C, Olkowska D, Wilson M. Transfusion-associated babesiosis in the United States: A description of cases. Ann Intern Med 2011; 155. Pub. online 5 Sept. 2011. (full free text)
  • Leiby DA. Transfusion-associated babesiosis: Shouldn't we be ticked off? (editorial) Ann Intern Med 2011 (full free text)
• Puetz J, Witmer C, Huang YS, Raffini L.Widespread use of fresh frozen plasma in US children’s hospitals despite limited evidence demonstrating a beneficial effect. J Pediatr 2011 Sep 14. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Kids given plasma despite no clear benefit (29 Sept. 2011)

• Yank V, Logan AC, Randall S. Stafford RS. Off-Label use of recombinant Factor VIIa. Ann Intern Med 2011 Sep 6;155(5):338–9. (author reply)

  • Logan AC, Yank V, Stafford RS. Off-label use of recombinant factor VIIa in U.S. hospitals: analysis of hospital records. Ann Intern Med. 2011 Apr 19;154:516–22.
  • Yank V, Tuohy CV, Logan AC, Bravata DM, Staudenmayer K, Eisenhut R, et al. Systematic review: benefits and harms of in-hospital use of recombinant factor VIIa for off-label indications. Ann Intern Med. 2011 Apr19;154:529–40.

   

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