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October's newsletter includes
- Eclectic international news, including a Canadian lawsuit involving blood, sex, duplicity, and a constitutional challenge
- New additions to the Resource Library: Nursing resources from Australia and the UK and a blood collection and utilization survey from the USA
- Industry news featuring a shareholder lawsuit against Immucor alleging securities fraud and a jail sentence and fine for a former Biotech VP who faked cancer to avoid a SEC lawsuit
- New TM blog:Don't ask, don't tell... Time to fold 'em or bad moon rising? (Musings on the MSM deferral policy for blood donors)
- and much more...
We would like to congratulate Mexico City on their successful bid to host the ISBT XXXIInd International Congress (July 7–12, 2012)
We also note the passing of another TM giant, Dr. Eloise Giblett (1921–2009), author of Genetic Markers in Human Blood
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Prior newsletter | 2009 calendar | Jobs | For the latest, see What's new
Featured Conference
AABB Annual Meeting TXPO 2009 (New Orleans, LA, USA)
TraQ / BC PBCO News
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BC Action Plan for West Nile Virus and the Blood
Supply - 2009
- BC Update for WNV and the Blood Supply (Updated: 28 Aug. 2009)
- BC PBCO website
- The latest: New on TraQ
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Court case: 'Freeman vs CBS and Health
Canada'
- CBS defends charter rights claim on MSM policy
- Gay man donated to get HIV test (CBS lawyer)
- CHS has intervenor status in court case of CBS and gay man
- Gay man feared being "blacklisted"
- Ontario gay man argues the right to donate blood
- Gay man sues CBS claiming blood screening questionnaire violates Charter rights
- Canadian AIDS Society proposal to update Canada's blood screening survey
- Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- UBC Certificate Course in Laboratory Quality Management (Registration - deadline Nov. 30, 2009)
General
- TM 'giant' Dr. Eloise Giblett, author of the
classic text,
Genetic Markers in Human Blood, dies at
88
- Eloise Giblett (NY Times obituary)
- Eloise ('Elo') Giblett (Seattle Times obituary)
- BBTS 2009 Annual Conference - Awards Presentation photographs (includes photo of Canada's Nancy Heddle receiving International Woman in Transfusion award)
- AABB: Errata sheet for Standards for Blood Banks and Transfusion Services, ed. 26
- Typenex "Transfusion Safety Champions Contest" (Deadline: 21 Oct. 2009)
Australia
Pakistan
UK
- Human interest story of toddler who received 11 intravenous transfusions for HDN
- Transfusion delay ruled significant factor in death of woman who died after jugular vein accidentally punctured
- "Meet the blood matchmaker"
- Wait time for liver transplants increased for group B recipients
- NBS donations date back 63 yrs
USA
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Blood transfusions more than double since 1997 (24 Sept. 2009, AHRQ 'News and Numbers')
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**More - Regional and International News
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General
Avian flu
Chagas
H1N1 Swine flu
- See Japan above
- WHO: Updates
- CBS: H1N1 influenza - information for donors (Canada)
- Agencies, etc.
- CDC: Swine influenza (USA)
- NEJM H1N1 Influenza Center
- Public Health Agency of Canada: Human swine influenza
- WHO: Swine influenza
- Healthmap.org: Swine flu
vCJD
WNV
- Canada: BC Update for WNV and the Blood Supply (Updated: 28 Aug. 2009)
- Agencies, etc.
- AABB: 2009 WNV Biovigilance Network
- Canada: CBS WNV website
- CDC (USA): WNV viremic blood donor activity
- TraQ WNV clearinghouse
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- Pomerantz files class action lawsuit against Immucor alleging securities fraud
- Former Biopure VP gets 3-yr jail sentence & $50,000 fine for faking cancer to avoid SEC lawsuit
Also see Industry News**
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Books /
Journals/Newsletters
(free full
text) (*
1 or more Canadian
authors- Immunohematology (ARC): Back issues
- Transfusion (AABB):
TOC -
Current issue
- Journal of Blood Services Management (quarterly with AABB's Transfusion)
- Transfusion Alternatives in Transfusion Medicine (NATA): TOC - Current issue
- Transfusion
Medicine (BBTS):
TOC -
Current issue
- Transfusion Medicine Reviews: TOC - Current issue
- Vox Sang (ISBT): TOC - Current issue
Blood banks retooling to manage growth of biologics (CAP Today, Sept. 2009)
Fujii Y, et al. Consecutive national surveys of ABO-incompatible blood transfusion in Japan. Vox Sang 2009 Oct;97(3):240–6.
**Also see TraQ literature clearinghouses
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Canada
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Web-based IVIG Request Module (Support documents & training materials are accessible to public)
CBS: Clinical guide to transfusion | transfusionmedicine.ca
CE/CPD: UBC Certificate Course in Laboratory Quality Management (Registration - deadline Nov. 30, 2009)
Musings on Transfusion Medicine (blog):
Don't ask, don't tell... Time to fold 'em or bad moon rising? (Musings on the MSM deferral policy for blood donors)
Nursing resources
- Australia (Blood Matters): Transfusion nurse resources (e.g., job description, value of transfusion nurse)
- UK (Better Blood Transfusion Toolkit): A framework to support nurses and midwives making the clinical decision and providing the written instruction for blood component transfusion (Sept. 2009)
- Also see TraQ's nursing resources
USA: National Blood Collection and Utilization Surveys
- Also see Blood transfusions more than double since 1997 (24 Sept. 2009, AHRQ 'News and Numbers')
- Also see TraQ's library: Utilization management
**Also see TraQ's:
Continuing education | Patient resources | Nursing resources | Resource library | Links | Video library
- Canada: Manager, Transfusion Services, Scarborough, ON (Job on CSTM website)
- Job opportunity (6 mth contract): Medical Officer, WHO Blood Transfusion Safety programme, Geneva (Deadline: 19 Oct. 2009)
- Jobs on TraQ
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Government, Association, &
Related News & Updates
USA
Joint Commission: Blood Management Performance Measures Project - Last Updated 10/09
**TraQ's
Government news
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TraQ case study: Mini-Case B7 (Case of a disappearing antibody)
See all of our interactive case studies
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TraQ offers best practice guidelines covering the most commonly used procedures in a hospital transfusion service.
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