What's New - February 2019 (By topic)
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Collaborating Sites: CSTM
NEW TraQ's January newsletter
General
- Tainted blood timeline | Excellent site with links to resources in UK, Canada, etc.
- Dialogue with AABB President, Dr. Michael Murphy (MLO, 23 Jan. 2019)
- From the archives - Global trade in organs
- One doctor’s war against global organ trafficking (29 May 2017, PBS)
- Author of 'Red Market' sees growth in organ trade (26 Apr. 2018)
- Organ trafficking: Hiding in plain sight (26 June 2018)
- Bloody Harvest -'Revised Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China' (2007) | You can also download 237pp. report as .pdf
- Super-fast logistics of delivering blood by drone (25 Jan. 2019) | 13:31 min. video | Features UK's NHSBT and Rwanda
Canada
- CSA Z902 2020, draft version of Standards for Blood and Blood Components, open for public review (Jan. 16 - Mar. 16, 2019
- Hema-Quebec's innovative campaign for black female donors (13 Feb. 2019) | Joint campaign with Black History Month Round Table and Sickle Cell Foundation
- Héma-Québec: Plasma donation: what happens after (3:40 min. video)
- CBS: Vein to Vein: A Summary of the Blood System in Canada by Sophie Chargé (17 Jan. 2019) | Updated Ch.1 in Clinical Guide to Transfusion
- Background: 'A systemic deconstruction of the Canadian tainted blood tragedy' by Gilles Paquet and Roger A Perrault (From October 27, 2015) | Authors dispute 4 accusations from the Krever Report
- 'Unspeakable' TV series on 'Tainted Blood Scandal'
- CBC's 'Unspeakable' historical timeline
- Sneak peek of episode 7 ['Intent'] (20 Feb. 2019)
- Sneak peek of episode 6 ['Krever'] (13 Feb. 2019)
- Sneak peek of episode 5 ['Compensation'] (6 Feb. 2019)
- CBS: Upcoming educational events
- Note: Jan/Feb educational events includes 'Best Practices in Providing Culturally Competent Care for Trans Blood Donors. Does Blood Donation Effectively Reduce Hemoglobin for Donors Taking Testosterone?'
Australia
China
- Nation not alone in blood plasma HIV scares, but must find out why it happened (12 Feb. 2019)
- Blood plasma scandal latest stain on China's medical products image (7 Feb. 2019)
Kenya
- National blood service teeters on brink of moral receivership (9 Feb. 2019)
- Health services paralysed as nurses strike in 11 counties (5 Feb. 2019)
UK
- We've got GPaemia and our system is on the attack (1 Feb. 2019)
- Infected Blood Inquiry:
- Statement from Chair of Inquiry regarding NHS England and document retention (14 Feb. 2018)
- Hundreds of contaminated blood files ‘checked out by Government officials’ and went missing (11 Feb. 2019)
- Interview with founder of the Factor 8 Campaign (11 Feb. 2019) | 6:30 min. BBC4 Radio
- Interview with chair of Haemophilia Scotland(11 Feb. 2019) | 6:44 min. BBC Radio Scotland
- Locations and dates of public hearings revealed (Feb. 2019, Issue 2 newsletter)
- Contaminated blood victim calls for more support for those caught up in scandal (1 Feb. 2019)
- Inquiry issues a Section 21 demanding documents from the Medical Protection Society (31 Jan. 2019)
- Also see General above (Tainted blood timeline)
USA
- Black History Month: Charles Drew a pioneer in storing blood (11 Feb. 2019)
- Blood transfusions from younger people won't slow the aging process (3 Feb. 2019)
- What Is the blood of a poor person worth? (1 Feb. 2019)
Industry news
- Hemoglobin Oxygen Therapeutics announces updated results from The Netherlands' leading liver transplant hospital (13 Feb. 2019)
- de Vries Y, Matton APM, Nijsten MWN, Werner MJM, van den Berg AP, de Boer MT,et al. Pretransplant sequential hypo- and normothermic machine perfusion of suboptimal livers donated after circulatory death using a hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier perfusion solution. Am J Transplant. 2018 Dec 26. [Epub ahead of print]
- Roche joins rivals and donates hemophilia drug to boost access in developing countries (6 Feb. 2019)
- Also see USA above (Blood from younger people)
Diseases in the news
- HCV/HIV: See China above (Blood plasma scandal) and UK above (Infected Blood Inquiry)
Resource Library / Links
- NEW TraQ's January newsletter
- NEW TM blog: Unforgettable (Musings on the CBC's Unspeakable about Canada's 'tainted blood scandal')
- Dec. TM blog: Those were the Days (Musings on physicians I've worked with over a lifetime)
- AUSTRALIA:
- 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:
- Héma-Québec: Plasma donation: what happens after (3:40 min. video)
- CBS BloodTechNet program
- CBS-sponsored LearnTransfusion series
- 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
- ORBCoN Report (Nov. 2018)
- Bloody Easy 4 (Guide to Transfusion Medicine, ed. 4)
- Bloody Easy Blood Administration, v. 2
- 2018 webcast schedule
Journals, etc.
Free full text papers | * 1 or more Canadian authors
- Arbach O, Taumberger AB, Wietek S, Cervinek L, Salama A. Efficacy and safety of a new intravenous immunoglobulin (Panzyga®) in chronic immune thrombocytopenia. Transfus Med. 2019 Jan 27. [Epub ahead of print]
- de Vries Y, Matton APM, Nijsten MWN, Werner MJM, van den Berg AP, de Boer MT,et al. Pretransplant sequential hypo- and normothermic machine perfusion of suboptimal livers donated after circulatory death using a hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier perfusion solution. Am J Transplant. 2018 Dec 26. [Epub ahead of print]
- Faisal A, Andres K, Rind JAK, Das A, Alter D, Subramanian J, et al. Reducing the number of unnecessary routine laboratory tests through education of internal medicine residents. Postgrad Med J. 2018 Dec;94(1118):716-9. Epub 2019 Jan 22.
- Fasano RM, Meyer EK, Branscomb J, White MS, Gibson RW, Eckman JR. Impact of red blood cell antigen matching on alloimmunization and transfusion complications in patients with sickle cell disease: a systematic review. Transfus Med Rev. 2019 Jan;33(1):12-23. Epub 2018 Jul 26.
- * Goldman M, Germain M, Grégoire Y, Vassallo RR, Kamel H, Bravo M, Irving DO, Di Angelantonio E, Steele WR, O'Brien SF; Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion Collaborative (BEST) Investigators. Safety of blood donation by individuals over age 70 and their contribution to the blood supply in five developed countries: a BEST Collaborative group study. Transfusion. 2019 Jan 4. [Epub ahead of print]
- * Haw J, Polzer J, Devine DV. Contextual factors influencing donor recruitment and cord blood collection: perspectives of frontline staff of the Canadian Blood Services' Cord Blood Bank. Transfusion. 2019 Feb 11. [Epub ahead of print]
- * Hornby K, Shemie SD, Appleby A, Dodd N, Gill J, Kim J, Kramer A, Kutsogiannis DJ, Lahaie N, MacLean J, Rehel L, Webster G, Wu J, Scales DC. Development of a national minimum data set to monitor deceased organ donation performance in Canada. Can J Anaesth. 2019 Jan 28. [Epub ahead of print]
- Jansen P, Sümnig A, Esefeld M, Greffin K, Kaderali L, Greinacher A. Well-being and return rate of first-time whole blood donors. Vox Sang. 2019 Jan 29. [Epub ahead of print]
- Jones RE, Foster DS, Hu MS, Longaker MT. Wound healing and fibrosis: current stem cell therapies. Transfusion. 2019 Feb;59(S1):884-92.
- * Nellis ME, et al; P3T Investigators. Effects of ABO matching of platelet transfusions in critically ill children. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2019 Feb;20(2):e61-9.
- * O'Brien SF, Osmond L, Fan W, Yi QL, Goldman M. Compliance with time based deferrals for men who have sex with men. Transfusion. 2019 Jan 10. [Epub ahead of print]
- Reynolds C, Davison KL, Brailsford SR. Safe supplies: few infections in UK blood and tissue donors. Transfus Med. 2019 Jan 28. [Epub ahead of print]
- Wood EM, Ang AL, Bisht A, Bolton-Maggs PH, Bokhorst AG, Flesland O, et al. International haemovigilance: what have we learned and what do we need to do next? (review) Transfus Med. 2019 Feb 6. [Epub ahead of print]