International Transfusion Guidelines and Standards for Best Practice (TraQ Program)




International Transfusion Guidelines and Standards for Best Practice
General 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.
Australia - New Zealand Clinical practice guidelines on the use of blood components National Health and Medical Research Council New clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of haemophilia and von Willebrand disease ( Australian NBA: 27 June 2006) Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for the use of recombinant and plasma-derived FVIII and FIX products in Australia (June 2006) ANZSBT Guidelines ( ) Blood Grouping and Antibody Screening in the Antenatal and Perinatal Setting - Revised March 2004 Gamma Irradiation of Blood Components - May 2003 Laboratory Assessment of Fetomaternal Haemorrhage - Nov 2002 Autologous Blood Collection - Apr 2002 Irradiated Blood Products; and Leucocyte Depletion of Blood & Blood Components - Oct 1996 Pre-operative Autologous Blood Collection- Jul 1996 Guidelines for the Administration of Blood Components, ed. 1 (Oct. 2004) ANZSBT & Royal College of Nursing Australia
International Society for Blood Transfusion – Guidelines for validation and maintaining the validation state of automated systems in blood banking (July 2003)
UK BCSH Guidelines: Blood Transfusion UK blood transfusion and tissue transplantation guidelines Guidelines for the Blood Transfusion Services in the UK UK Transfusion Laboratory Collaborative: Recommended minimum standards for hospital transfusion laboratories Perioperative blood transfusion for elective surgery – A national clinical guideline (Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network-Oct. 2001; updated Aug. 2004) Cell salvage blood (intra-operative), administration in a non theatre setting (UCL Institute of Child Health) Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland Blood Transfusion and the Anaesthetist - Blood Component Therapy (2005) Blood Transfusion and the Anaesthetists - Intra-operative Cell Salvage (2009) AAGBI Safety Guideline Blood Transfusion and the Anaesthetist - Red Cell Transfusion 2 (2008) Management of Anaesthesia for Jehovah's Witnesses (2005)
USA Clinical practice guideline: red blood cell transfusion in adult trauma and critical care. Napolitano LM,et al; American College of Critical Care Medicine of the Society of Critical Care Medicine; Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma Practice Management Workgroup (Crit Care Med. 2009 Dec;37(12):3124–57) Use of Red Blood Cell Transfusion Reviewed in Trauma, Critical Care (30 Dec. 2009, Medscape) Guidelines for transfusion therapy of Infants from birth to four months of age (Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research, New York State Department of Health) Management of hyperbilirubinemia in the newborn infant 35 or more weeks of gestation (summary) American Academy of Pediatrics 1994 Oct (revised 2004 Jul) Platelet transfusion for patients with cancer (summary) American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2000 Nov 3. Practice guidelines for prenatal and perinatal immunohematology, revisited. - Transfusion 2001 Nov; 41(11): 1445–52. Prevention of Rh D alloimmunization - American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 1999 May (reviewed 2004)

Also see Canadian Guidelines & Standards

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