January Archives    Hover mouse over acronyms below to expand

• 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 
• TMS Documents – Processes:
  • Laboratory Quality Manual
  • Technical Operations Manual

8 February

• Australia: Demand for IVIG leaves toddlers wanting
  • National Blood Authority (see IVIG items in right menu)
• Canada: Transfusion Ontario - "What's New":
  • Acute Transfusion Reactions presentation by Dr. Jacob Pendergrast
  • Provincial Frozen Plasma Audit Results and Recommendations
  • Ontario Guidelines for the Use of Intravenous Immune Globulin (IVIg)
• India: Six children reported to have transfusion-associated HIV in Jodhpur
• UK: Does vCJD still pose a major public health threat?
• USA: AIDS activist who contacted transfusion-associated HIV as a child succumbs to H1N1 influenza at age 26

7 February

• Patient resource: National Anemia Action Council. Treating anemia with red blood cell transfusions. 2010 Jan 20.
  • Also see TraQ's For patients
•  Ayob Y. Hemovigilance in developing countries. Biologicals 2010 Feb 2.
• Shao CP. Transfusion of RhD-positive blood in "Asia type" DEL recipients. NEJM 2010 Feb 4;362(5):472–3.
• Schwertz H, et al. Anucleate platelets generate progeny. Blood First Edition Paper, prepublished online January 19, 2010; DOI 10.1182/blood-2009-08-239558.

6 February

• BC PBCO / TraQ: TMS Documents – Processes:
  • Laboratory Quality Manual
  • Technical Operations Manual (in progress)

5 February

• UK: New freeze technique to filter antibodies aids kidney transplantation
• USA: ARC and other blood centers send blood to Haiti

2 February

• Drug could turn soldiers into super-survivors
  • Alam HB, Shuja F, Butt MU, Duggan M, Li Y, Zacharias N, et al. Surviving blood loss without blood transfusion in a swine poly-trauma model. Surgery. 2009 Aug;146(2):325–33.

1 February

• Haemonetics announces plan to buy Global Med Technologies, parent company of Wyndgate Technologies, for $60 million