New on TraQ - JANUARY 2010 - Chronological version

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• PBCO:  BC Blood Contingency Plan and Toolkit (Oct. 30, 2009)
  • BC Blood Contingency Plan (Updated 21 Dec. 2009: UM.CONT.0001 Ver 2.0)
• PBCO: SCIG Home Infusion Resource Kit now available
• BC PBCO website
• TraQ case study: TraQ Case B7 (Case of a disappearing antibody)
• TraQ's January newsletter 

28 January

• Canada: Updates - CSTM 2010 Vancouver

26 January

• UK: Strange Case of Penny Allison (starring Hugh Laurie and Imelda Staunton)
• UK: Blood and Transplant Matters (Winter 2009 newsletter) Includes
  • Results of Online Survey on Implementation of ‘Better Blood Transfusion – Safe and Appropriate Use of Blood’
  • Preventing Transfusion Transmitted Infections: An Asymptotic Endeavour
  • How NHS Blood and Transplant is preparing for Pandemic Influenza
• TraQ: 2010 events calendar update

25 January

• USA: NYBC announces Haiti initiative for Jan. 25-31
• UK: BloodTrack^® wins best 'Public Sector Project' at the UK IT Computing Awards

22 January

• International Woman in Transfusion Award ends after 5 years
• AABB provides access to information on  emerging infectious disease agents
  • Fact Sheets - Priority Assessment Tables - Abbreviations (August 2009 supplement of Transfusion)
  • Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-related Virus (January 2010)
• USA: CDC releases forms for hemovigilance module of National Healthcare Safety Network
• Blog update: New content added to Stand by Me - Musings on Conflict between TM professionals:
  • Nurses oppose Ontario government's physician assistant role citing inadequate education, concerns over patient safety and unnecessary costs
    • RNAO position statement
  • CMA urges collegiality, not confrontation, to improve patient care

21 January

• Canada: Québec adopts no-fault insurance for transfusions, human tissues & stem cells distributed by Héma-Québec
• Harold Meryman. pioneer in freezing RBC, dies at 88
• Chua SC, Joung SJ, Aziz R. Incidence and risk factors predicting blood transfusion in caesarean section. Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol 2009 Oct;49(5):490–3.
• China: 80 patients contacted HIV via transfusion at hospital 12 years ago

18 January

• USA: Florida's Blood Centers CEO assures legislators she "gets it" and has completely overhauled business practices
  • Backgrounder:  Tracking the big business of donated blood in Orlando (Fascinating ... be sure to see pp. 2 & 3 too) (1 Feb. 2009)

15 January

• USA: Blood donor sues Stanford blood center over infection

10 January

• TraQ's January newsletter 
• TM blog: Checklists - Simply the best? (Musings on mistake proofing)

9 January

• Cases from the 2008 SHOT Report
• Checklists - A few examples:
  • BloodSafe (Govt. South Australia) See Safety Resource Files for conditions of use
    • Nursing admin checklist (Sept. 2008)
    • Red cell transfusion audit checklist for patient's notes (Dec. 2008)
    • Transfusion basics - prescribing guide (Dec. 2008)
  • UK (Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS): Pre-operative checklist for all patients who decline treatment using blood components
• Guidelines - 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)
• Ireland: IBTS to sell unwanted plasma to manufacturers to save disposal costs
• Staccini P, Rouger P. Modeling and using a web-based and tutored portfolio to support certification of professional competence in transfusion medicine. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2008 Nov 6:697–701. (free full text)

9 January

• Canada: Blood ban unfair to gay men, lawyer says (final arguments of 10 wk court case)
  • Background: 'Freeman vs CBS and Health Canada'
• General
  • Blood Detectives (documentary on blood and hematologists)
  • Jain S. Googling ourselves — What physicians can learn from online rating sites. NEJM 2010 Jan 7;362(1):6–7.
• More lessons from the airline industry
  • Background: Under Recommendations, see Non-punitive National Transfusion-related Adverse Event Reporting System - Infrastructure for Effective Transfusion Practices: Reducing Mis-transfusion (AABB discussion paper)
    • The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande, MD
      • Author speaking on Charlie Rose
      • Book review
      • Author bio (Harvard Magazine)
• FDA wants new studies to assess erythropoiesis-stimulating agents in chronic kidney disease (8 Jan. 2010)
  • Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents — time for a reevaluation (NEJM, 6 Jan. 2010)
• Ireland: Woman died after refusing transfusion
• USA: A downside of organ donation

8 January

• Keller-Stanislawski B, Lohmann A, Günay S, Heiden M, Funk MB. The German Haemovigilance System--reports of serious adverse transfusion reactions between 1997 and 2007. Transfus Med. 2009 Dec;19(6):340–9. Epub 2009 Aug 31.
• Winter weather affects blood supply overseas:
  • Ireland
  • Scotland
  • UK

January 6

• UK DOH: Updates to "Emergency planning: development of an integrated plan for the management of blood shortages" (NHS Blood and Transplant and Hospitals)
  • Plan to address Red Cell Shortages (Oct. 2009)
  • Plan to address Platelet Shortages (Oct. 2009)

   

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