What's New - October 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's September newsletter | 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):
- PBCO: Who's who and what's new (Cecilia Li & Tanya Petraszko)
- 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)
Global News
General
- 2011 AABB award recipients
- AABB meeting at a glance (San Diego, Oct. 22–25, 2011)
Canada
- CBS to relax restrictions on MSM donors (21 Oct. 2011)
- BC PBCO (also see PBCO/CBS presentations above)
- 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
- BC PBCO: Who's who and what's new (Cecilia Li & Tanya Petraszko)
- Héma-Québec makes blood donation more accessible to the deaf (3 Oct. 2011)
Singapore
UK
- Scotland: Researchers claim 'artificial blood' from stem cells could be used routinely in "a decade or so" (27 Oct. 2011)
- NHS Blood and Transplant Commercial Review(Oct. 2011) Statistical tidbits:
- Reduction in processing & testing centres from 12 and 11 respectively in 2007 to 5 and 3 by end of 2012 will save NHS hospitals £30 million/yr
- Implementation of e-system:
- Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals cost for e-system: £350,000/yr
- Estimated savings from reduced Nursing time: £500,000/yr | Blood use: £400,000/yr
- Median time to deliver STAT RBC: Before e-system=18 min | After e-system=45 secs
- E-blood system could save NHS £40m a year (20 Oct. 2011)
- English and Welsh Blood Service: On the edge of privatisation? (3 Oct. 2011)
- Doctors need better training to avoid phlebotomy mistakes in ER (22 Sept. 2011)
- Berg JE, Ahee P, Berg JD. Variation in phlebotomy techniques in emergency medicine and the incidence of haemolysed samples. Ann Clin Biochem 2011 Sep. [Pub. ahead of print 23 Sept. 2011]
USA
- Two NIH patients die from septic shock following platelet transfusions known to be infected (25 Oct. 2011)
- CDC issues new draft guidelines for organ transplantation (21 Sept. 2011)
Industry news
- CaridianBCT and Terumo to become Terumo BCT (24 Oct. 2011)
- Court rules in favor of Fenwal in ~6-yr patent dispute with Haemonetics
- Related: US Market for therapeutic apheresis to reach US$138.9 Million by 2017 (7 Oct. 2011)
- Immucor: William A Hawkins apppointed new CEO (6 Oct. 2011)
- Background: Medtronics CEO Hawkins to retire after 3-yr struggle to grow sales (Bloomberg News)
* Also see TraQ's Industry News
Diseases in the news
HIV: See Singapore above
Malaria: USA: CDC recommends anti-malarials for travelers to Laconia, Greece (AABB Standards require 12 mth donor deferral after travel to areas at risk for malaria)
* See TraQ's 'Disease clearinghouses' in top menu
Resource Library / Links
TraQ's September newsletter
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)
Joint PBCO/CBS presentations (28 Sept. 2011, Castelgar, BC):
PBCO: Who's who and what's new (Cecilia Li & Tanya Petraszko)
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)
TM blog: "Where's the beef?" (Musings on 2 transfusion-related iPad apps)
*See TraQ's Resource Library | Nursing resources | Literature clearinghouses | Links | Continuing education | Jobs | Video library
Journals / Newsletters / Posters / Books
- Allden RL, Sinha R, Roxby DJ, Ireland S, Hakendorf P, Robinson KL. Red alert - a new perspective on patterns of blood use in the South Australian public sector. Aust Health Rev. 2011 Aug;35(3):327-33.
- Berg JE, Ahee P, Berg JD. Variation in phlebotomy techniques in emergency medicine and the incidence of haemolysed samples. Ann Clin Biochem 2011 Sep. [Pub. ahead of print 23 Sept. 2011]
- Doctors need better training to avoid phlebotomy mistakes in ER (22 Sept. 2011)
- Blaylock RC, Lehman CM. Managing transfusion service quality. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2011 Nov; 135(11):1415-24.
- International Forum. Deferral of males who had sex with other males. Vox Sang 2011; 101:339-67. Published online: 13 Oct. 2011
- Stokes ME, Ye X, Shah M, Mercaldi K, Reynolds MW, Rupnow MF, Hammond J.Impact of bleeding-related complications and/or blood product transfusions on hospital costs in inpatient surgical patients. BMC Health Serv Res. 2011 May 31;11:135. (free full text)
- Winters JL, Brown D, Hazard E, Chainani A, Andrzejewski C Jr. Cost-minimization analysis of the direct costs of TPE and IVIg in the treatment of Guillain-Barré syndrome. BMC Health Serv Res. 2011 May 16;11:101. (free full text)
