What's New - January 2019 (By topic)
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NEW TraQ's December newsletter
General
- Higher platelet transfusion threshold appeared to increase risk for death and major bleeding among preterm infants with severe thrombocytopenia (16 Jan. 2019)
- Curley A, Stanworth SJ, Willoughby K, Fustolo-Gunnink SF, Venkatesh V, Hudson C, et al. Randomized trial of platelet-transfusion thresholds in neonates. N Engl J Med. 2019 Jan 17;380(3):242-51. Epub 2018 Nov 2.
- The history of blood (14 Jan. 2019) | Review of 'Nine Pints' (Rose George) by U.S. hematologist
- A guided tour of human blood: past, present, and future (4 Jan. 2019) | Review of 'Nine Pints' by Dr. David Scales
Canada
- Bad blood. The unspeakable truth (11 Jan. 2019)
- 'Unspeakable' TV series on 'Tainted Blood Scandal'
- From one unaware donor to a patient in need of blood. Watch how it happened in this sneak peek clip of episode 2 (16 Jan. 2019)
- Timeline of events (1981-83) covering discovery, transmission, first reported cases of Canada's 'Tainted Blood Scandal' (CBC's 'Unspeakable' 7 part series)
- 'Unspeakable' chronicles saga of two families impacted by Canada's 'Tainted Blood Scandal' (Premieres 9 Jan. 2019; 2:45 trailer) Based on two books:
- The gift of death: Confronting Canada's tainted-blood tragedy (1995) by André Picard
- Bad Blood: The Tragedy Of The Canadian Tainted Blood Scandal (2002) by Vic Parsons
- CBS: Upcoming educational events
- Note: Jan/Feb educational events includes 'Best Practices in Providing Culturally Competent Care for Trans Blood Donors. Does Blood Donation Effectively Reduce Hemoglobin for Donors Taking Testosterone?'
Ghana
India
- Woman who got HIV after transfusion delivers girl (18 Jan. 2019)
- Government asks USA's CDC to withdraw/modify Zika virus alert on pregnant women travelling to India (30 Dec. 2018)
- Second time in a month, pregnant woman claims she was transfused with HIV+ blood at public hospital (29 Dec. 2018)
Iran
Malta
- MOU between National Blood Transfusion Service and local councils signed to promote blood donations (15 Jan. 2019)
Pakistan
- Over 1,500 tested positive for hepatitis in Islamabad (12 Jan.2019)
UK
- Bolton-Maggs PHB. Conference report: International Haemovigilance Seminar and the SHOT Annual Symposium, 10-12 July 2018. Transfus Med. 2018 Dec 27. [Epub ahead of print] | Note: You can download supporting information
- Infected Blood Inquiry:
- Inquiry launches innovative way to collect evidence (10 Jan. 2019)
- Government slammed for forcing contaminated blood widow into financial ruin days after husband’s death (8 Jan. 2019)
- Scottish ministers were told in 2003 that UK Health Department was investigating claim contaminated blood was being "knowingly supplied" (1 Jan. 2019)
- What I learned from a year reporting on the blood contamination scandal (30 Dec. 2018)
USA
- Some help found, but more is needed for Florida girl with rare blood In(b-) phenotype (14 Jan. 2019)
- Baylor St. Luke's replaces president, two other executives following latest lapse of patient death after transfusion of wrong blood group (14 Jan. 2019)
- Screening all donated blood for Zika virus is not cost-effective in the United States (8 Jan. 2019)
- Russell WA, Stramer SL, Busch MP, Custer B. Screening the blood supply for Zika virus in the 50 U.S. states and Puerto Rico: a cost-effectiveness analysis. Ann Intern Med. 2019 Jan 8. [Epub ahead of print]
- Worldwide drive to find blood match for 2-year-old comes to San Francisco (6 Jan. 2019) | Child has rare In (a+b-) phenotype.
- Ambrosia founder hawks young blood as a new miracle treatment. All that's missing is proof (29 Dec. 2018)
Industry news
- See USA above (Ambrosia)
Diseases in the news
- HCV/HIV: See UK above (Infected Blood Inquiry)
- Zika virus: See India and USA above
Resource Library / Links
- NEW TraQ's December newsletter
- NEW TM blog: Those were the Days (Musings on physicians I've worked with over a lifetime)
- Nov. TM blog: Nessun dorma (Musings on anti-paid plasma blogs over the years)
- AUSTRALIA:
- BloodSafe ELearning Australia has new free courses based on Patient Blood Management Guidelines:
- Module 6 - PBM for Neonatal and Paediatrics
- BloodSafe ELearning Australia has new free courses based on Patient Blood Management Guidelines:
- CANADA:
- CBS BloodTechNet program
- CBS-sponsored LearnTransfusion series
- Choosing Wisely Canada's transfusion recommendations (Entertaining and informative 2-2.5 min. animated videos)
- Blood & Blood Clots
- Educational resources housed on CanadiEM dedicated to the management of bleeding and thrombosis
- Resources include Interactive Quizlets, Blog Posts, and Podcasts
- ORBCoN
- ORBCoN Report (Nov. 2018)
- Bloody Easy 4 (Guide to Transfusion Medicine, ed. 4)
- Bloody Easy Blood Administration, v. 2
- 2018 webcast schedule
Journals, etc.
Free full text papers | * 1 or more Canadian authors
- Bolton-Maggs PHB. Conference report: International Haemovigilance Seminar and the SHOT Annual Symposium, 10-12 July 2018. Transfus Med. 2018 Dec 27. [Epub ahead of print] | Note: You can download supporting information
- Evangelia-Eleni C, et al. Ex vivo generation of transfusable red blood cells from various stem cell sources: A concise revisit of where we are now. Transfus Apher Sci. 2018. EPub Dec 31, 2018.
- Kanagasabai U, Chevalier MS, Drammeh B, et al. Trends and gaps in national blood transfusion services - 14 sub-Saharan African countries, 20142016. MMWR 2018;67:13926.
- Kim J, Weigand M, Palmer AF, Zborowski M, Yazer MH, Chalmers JJ. Single cell analysis of aged RBCs: quantitative analysis of the aged cells and byproducts. Analyst. 2019 Jan 8. [Epub ahead of print]
- Russell WA, Stramer SL, Busch MP, Custer B. Screening the blood supply for Zika virus in the 50 U.S. states and Puerto Rico: a cost-effectiveness analysis. Ann Intern Med. 2019 Jan 8. [Epub ahead of print]
- Shin KH, Lee HJ, Park KH, Hye BM, Chang CL, Kim HH. Extended red blood cell genotyping to investigate immunohematology problems. Ann Lab Med. 2018 Jul;38(4):387-8.
- Watson-Brown P, Viennet E, Mincham G, Williams CR, Jansen CC, Montgomery BL, Flower RLP, Faddy HM. Epidemic potential of Zika virus in Australia: implications for blood transfusion safety. Transfusion. 2019 Jan 8. [Epub ahead of print]