Resource Library Archives
- 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:
- CBS, BC & Yukon Region WNV Update (20 Aug. 2021)
- BC MOH/CBS/PBCO: BC Contingency Plan for Arboviruses & The Blood Supply 2021 (Reviewed June 2021)
- Exploring the frontiers of IVIG-associated hemolysis (CSTM/CBS/H-Q 2020 meeting presentation by Dr. Jacob Pendergrast and Donald Branch) | Includes 1 hr 15 min video.
- 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
- BC PBCO:
- Canadian Blood Services
- CBS: Khandelwal A. Impact of COVID-19 on blood donation in Canada [Internet]. Ottawa: Canadian Blood Services; 2021 May.
- Phenotype matching and storage age of blood for sickle cell patients: A review and recommendations for transfusion practice
- Rare Blood Program (11 Sept. 2020)
- 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:
- A Guide to Reporting Adverse Transfusion Events (Jan. 2020)
- Clinical Guide to Transfusion | Latest updates:
- Chapter 6: Donor Selection, Donor Testing and Pathogen Reduction (13 Apr. 2021)
- Chapter 16: Preoperative Autologous Donation (21 Apr. 2021)
- Ch. 2. Blood Components (Updated: 15 Jan. 2021)
- Blood Administration, Ch. 9 (6 Oct. 2020, by Clare O’Reilly, RN, RSCN)
- Ch. 8 Pre-transfusion Testing (Updated 13 July 2020)
- 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:
- ABO Subgroups (Oct. 2020)
- Diego System: Anti-Dia, Anti-Wra
- Kell System: Anti-Kpa, Anti-Jsa
- Lewis System: Anti-Lewis
- Lutheran System: Anti-Lua
- MNS System: Anti-M
- Rh System: Anti-Cw, anti-V
- Whole blood donors with antibodies
- LearnSerology (Six teaching modules and a selection of interactive antibody investigation panels)
- 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
- Platelet Transfusion Toolkit. v1 (April 2021)
- Two newly revised “Bloody Easy Lite” eLearning program for physicians and healthcare professionals who prescribe blood components/products
- 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
- ISBT: Abstracts of 31st Regional ISBT Congress, Virtual meeting (2-8 June). Vox Sang 2021;116, (S1): 5-198. Epub 31 May, 2021. | Related:
- Author index (189-198)
- ISBT: Introduction to Blood Transfusion: from donor to recipient. ISBT Science Series (2020) Epub 2020 Dec 11 (Free ebook, 332 pp.)
- UK
- SHOT Report 2020 (240 pp.)
- Cases from the 2020 Annual SHOT Report (137 slides)
- SHOT: Anti-D Immunoglobulin Administration to avoid sensitisation in pregnancy - an aide memoire (July 2020)
- Joint United Kingdom Blood Transfusion and Tissue Transplantation Services Professional Advisory Committee (Access top menu for the many options)
- 2019 SHOT Report
- SHOT Bites
- NHS: The role of the haematology /transfusion consultant scientist in the delivery of clinical and laboratory haematology services: An education and training solution and a workforce solution. National School of Healthcare Science Haematology Workforce Working Group (September 2020)
- NHS England: Maternal intravenous immunoglobulin for the prevention of allo-immune fetal and neonatal haemochromatosis (Dec. 2019) | Multiple documents
- NHSBT: Patient Blood Management launches Blood Assist app to support and promote safe blood component administration(1 Feb. 2021) | App can be downloaded onto personal devices or centrally in clinical areas.
- 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.)
- USA: Pocket Reference Cards:
- Taken from NHSN Biovigilance Component: Hemovigilance Module Surveillance Protocol v2.6 (March 2021)
- Standard for Surveillance of Complications Related to Blood Donation (Dec. 2014)
- Severity Grading Tool for Blood Donor Adverse Events (Dec. 2014)