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Novel coronavirus (COVID-19): See General, India, Korea, Philippines above and Journals below.

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NEW TraQ's June newsletter
NEW TM blog: You never give me your money (Musings on paying to develop COVID-19 vaccine)
- May blog: For the times they are a-changing (Musings on COVID-19 global news)
AUSTRALIA:
- Free information for patients & children (via Australia's NSW government, includes comic book 'My first Transfusion' by Canada's McMaster Transfusion Research Program)
- Australia/New Zealand: ANZBT Guidelines
- BloodSafe ELearning Australia has new free courses based on Iron Deficiency Anaemia
  - Essentials/Paediatrics/Preoperative/Heavy Menstrual Bleeding/Maternity/Chronic and Complex
- BloodSafe ELearning Australia has a new free course: Viscoelastic Haemostatic Testing
  - The course provides an introduction to the methodology and clinical use of viscoelastic haemostatic tests, thromboelastography (TEG^®) and thromboelastometry (ROTEM^®), which are used to assess haemostasis in patients with major bleeding.
- BloodSafe ELearning Australia has new free courses based on Patient Blood Management Guidelines: Module 6 - Neonatal and Paediatrics:
- PBM for Neonatal and Paediatrics
- Neonatal Preterm
- Fetal and Neonatal Alloimmune Thrombocytopenia
- Paediatric Haematology/Oncology
- Paediatric Surgical
- Paediatric Major Haemorrhage
- Paediatric Iron Deficiency Anaemia
CANADA:
- TM physicians develop new e-learning tools - “Treat the Bleed”
- BC PBCO
  - Blood Products
  - Contingency Plan for Arboviruses
  - Education
  - Programs (appropriate product use and safety)
  - Resources
  - TraQ case studies
  - PBCO-TraQ manuals
  - TraQ's monthly newsletter
- Canadian Blood Services
  - Canadian Clinical Guide to Organ Donation (Collaborative e-Learning course)
  - Meunier D, Clarke G. Testing and management of fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia. Canadian Blood Services Professional Education. Online May 2020.
  - CBS COVID-19 resources:
    - FAQ for health professionals working with blood products (Updated 29 May 2020)
    - Consensus guidance for organ donation and transplantation services during COVID19 pandemic (May 28 2020)
    - NEW COVID-19 and transfusion medicine
  - A Guide to Reporting Adverse Transfusion Events (Jan. 2020)
  - Clinical Guide to Transfusion | Latest updates:
    - Fractionated Blood Products and Associated Pathogen Safety - Ch. 7 (10 Sept. 2019)
    - Donor Selection, Donor Testing and Pathogen Reduction - Ch. 6 (8 Aug. 2019)
  - Serological best practices Includes the following:
    - Diego BGS: anti-Di^a; anti-Wr^a
    - Kell BGS: anti-Js^a; anti-Kp^a
    - Lewis BGS: Lewis antibodies / Lutheran BGS: anti-Lu^a
    - MNS BGS: anti-M / Rh BGS: anti C^w; anti-V
    - Whole blood donors with antibodies
  - CBS BloodTechNet program
  - CBS-sponsored LearnTransfusion series
- Héma-Québec: Plasma donation: what happens after (3:40 min. video)
- 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
  - NEW Coronavirus-related resources: Emergency blood management
  - Coagulation Simplified Flipbook, v. 2 (Nov. 2019)
  - Transfusion Committee Handbook, v3 (Updated Sept. 2019) | Scroll to download link
  - Home Infusion Toolkit v2.0
  - Bloody Easy 4 (Guide to Transfusion Medicine, ed. 4)
  - Bloody Easy Blood Administration, v. 2
  - 2020 webcast schedule
- UK
  - SHOT Bites
  - NHS England: Maternal intravenous immunoglobulin for the prevention of allo-immune fetal and neonatal haemochromatosis (Dec. 2019) | Multiple documents
  - Five SHOT posters (2019 BBTS Annual Scientific Meeting)
  - New SHOT videos (3 Sept. 2019)
    - Transfusion laboratory transfusion errors (6:50 mins)
    - Pulmonary complications of transfusion - TRAL, TACO, TAD (6:15 mins.)
  - 2018 Annual SHOT Report (9 July 2019) | 210 pp.
USA:
- NEW Advisory Council on Blood Stem Cell Transplantation: Meeting presentations (27 Apr. 2020)

Journals, etc.

Free full text papers | * 1 or more Canadian authors

Free sample journal issues:
- Brit J Haematol 2019 Jan; 184(1):1-112. | Special Issue: Themed Issue: Hodgkin Lymphoma Today and Tomorrow
- Brit J Haematol 2017 June;177(6):827-1007. | Special Issue:Low to middle income countries
- Immunohematology (J of American Red Cross): 1988-2017. (Articles in these years are free)
- AABB journal Transfusion 2019 Jan; 59(1):1-431.
- Transfus Med Rev 2019 Jan;33(1):1-68.
- Vox Sang 2019 Jan;114(1):1-103.
Open access journal: The Lancet Digital Health 2019 May;1(1):e1-e44.
Transfus Med Hemother 2019 Oct; 46(5): Many open access articles
New open access journal (May 2020): The Lancet Microbe
* Al-Riyami AZ, Schäfer R, van der Berg K, et al;ISBT Convalescent Plasma Working Group. Clinical use of convalescent plasma in the COVID-19 pandemic; a transfusion-focussed gap analysis with recommendations for future research priorities. Vox Sang. 2020;10.1111/vox.12973. Epub 2020 Jun 15.
Barriteau CM, Bochey P, Lindholm PF, Hartman K, Sumugod R, Ramsey G. Blood transfusion utilization in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Transfusion. 2020;10.1111/trf.15947. Epub 2020 Jun 24.
Ferguson E, Hill A, Lam M, et al. A typology of blood donor motivations. Transfusion. 2020;10.1111/trf.15913. Epub 2020 Jul.
Goolsby C, Rojas LE, Rodzik RH, Gausche-Hill M, Neal MD, Levy MJ. High-school students can stop the bleed: a randomized, controlled educational trial. Acad Pediatr. 2020;S1876-2859(20)30193-5. Epub 2020 May 27.
Gehrie EA, Frank SM, Goobie SM. Balancing supply and demand for blood during the COVID-19 pandemic. Anesthesiology. 2020;133(1):16-8.
Haw J, Holloway K, Masser BM, Merz EM, Thorpe R. Blood donation and the global COVID-19 pandemic: areas for social science research. (Commentary) Vox Sang. 2020;10.1111/vox.12974. Epub 2020 Jun 15. | PubMed abstract
Im JH, et al. Convalescent plasma therapy in coronavirus disease 2019: a case report and suggestions to overcome obstacles. J Korean Med Sci. 2020 Jul 06;35(26):e239. English. Epub Jun 26, 2020.
Kellie FJ, Wandabwa JN, Mousa HA, Weeks AD. Mechanical and surgical interventions for treating primary postpartum haemorrhage. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2020;7:CD013663. Epub 2020 Jul 1.
Khamis F, Al-Zakwani I, Al Hashmi S, et al. Therapeutic plasma exchange in adults with severe COVID-19 infection. Int J Infect Dis. 2020;S1201-9712(20)30499-9. Epub 2020 Jun 22.
Maldonado E, Tao D, Mackey K. Antithrombotic therapies in COVID-19 disease: a systematic review. J Gen Intern Med. 2020;1-9. Epub 2020 Jun 17.
Nolen L. How medical education is missing the bull's-eye. N Engl J Med. 2020;382(26):2489-91.
Xu Y, Wood AM, Sweeting MJ, Roberts DJ, Tom BD. Optimal individualized decision rules from a multi-arm trial: A comparison of methods and an application to tailoring inter-donation intervals among blood donors in the UK. Stat Methods Med Res. 2020;962280220920669. Epub 2020 May 8. | PubMed abstract

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