What's New - September 2018 (By topic)

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General

• Leading geneticists say research shows transfusions of young blood could stave off illness in older patients (8 Sept. 2018)
  • Partridge L, Deelen J3, Slagboom PE. Facing up to the global challenges of ageing. Nature. 2018 Sep;561(7721):45-56. Epub 2018 Sep 5.
  • Flatt T, Partridge L. Horizons in the evolution of aging. BMC Biol. 2018 Aug 20;16(1):93. (Free full text)
  • Dame Linda Partridge | More via Google search

Canada

• BC PBCO/CBS Education Session on Blood Transfusion Issues (25 Oct. 2018, Sydney, BC)
• CSTM Education Day (Lethbridge, AB; 21 Sept. 2018)
• CBS: Upcoming educational events

Australia

• Fewer blood transfusions needed worldwide (16 Sept. 2018)
• How to fix the market for plasma and save millions: pay plasma donors (2 Sept. 2018)
• Judge says hospital can give pregnant Jehovah's Witness teenager a blood transfusion (31 Aug. 2018)

Malta

• When NAT introduced gay men will be allowed to donate. (29 Aug. 2018) | Unclear which criteria will apply

Pakistan

• 88% blood deposits in Islamabad come from family, friends, says IBTA report (28 Aug. 2018) | 2017 donors: 67,081 (98.4%) men; 1,066 (1.6%) women

UK

• Scotland: 200 years since first successful human-to-human transfusion, SNBTS is in rude health (28 Aug. 2018)

USA

• AABB: Standards for Cellular Therapy Services, 9th ed (Draft available for public comment until 10 Oct. 2018)
• Gunshot victims require much more blood and are more likely to die than other trauma patients (17 Sept. 2018)
  • DeMario VM, Sikorski RA, Efron DT, Serbanescu MA, Buchanan RM, Wang EJ, et al. Blood utilization and mortality in victims of gun violence. Transfusion. 2018 Sep 12. [Epub ahead of print]
• 'I work 3 jobs and donate blood plasma to pay the bills.' This Is what it’s like to be a teacher in America (13 Sept. 2018)
• Trends and disparities in delivery hospitalizations involving severe maternal morbidity, 2006-2015. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2018 Sept.
  • Blood transfusions for women during childbirth rose 54% from 2006 to 2015;severe complications during delivery increased 45%.
• NY Blood Center hosts 95 blood drives to commemorate Sept. 11, 2001 attacks (6 Sept. 2018)

Industry news

• Theranos: Scandal hit blood-testing firm to shut (5 Sept. 2018)

Diseases in the news

• WNV (Canada): CBS, BC & Yukon Region WNV Update, 27 July 2018 (via BC PBCO)

Resource Library / Links

• Canada: CBS, BC & Yukon Region WNV Update, 27 July 2018 (via BC PBCO)
  • BC contingency plan for arboviruses and the blood supply (Reviewed 28 Mar. 2018)
• UK: 2017 SHOT Report (206 pp.) | Summary (4 pp. of infographics) | Supplementary info (inc. links to all)
• NEW TraQ's August newsletter
• NEW TM blog: Take a chance on me (Musings on PROMs and PCOs)
• July TM blog: Everything I do, I do it for you (Musings on the UK's Bawa-Garba case)
• BC PBCO update to Technical Operations Manual (TOM)
  • TMP0002: Blood Product Inventory Assessment, Order and Receipt
  • AOR 0004: Receiving Blood Products from CBS (v 2.0)
  • AOR 0014: Receiving and Issuing Untested or Incompletely Tested Blood Components from Canadian Blood Services (v 1.0)
  • TMP0014: Pretransfusion Examination
  • PTE 0017: Managing Transfusion Requests of Patients on Daratumumab Therapy (v 1.0)
• Canada (CBS BloodTechNet program)
  • 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
• Canada: CBS-sponsored LearnTransfusion series
• Canada (ORBCoN)
  • 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

• Bastos JMC, Pinheiro PL, Rocha LC, Bicalho EC, Cazeli AB, Marcondes SS, Pinasco GC. Therapeutic challenges in pregnant women with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria: A case report. Medicine (Baltimore). 2018 Sep;97(36):e12155.
• DeMario VM, Sikorski RA, Efron DT, Serbanescu MA, Buchanan RM, Wang EJ, et al. Blood utilization and mortality in victims of gun violence. Transfusion. 2018 Sep 12. [Epub ahead of print]
• Estcourt LJ, Malouf R, Doree C, Trivella M, Hopewell S, Birchall J. Prophylactic platelet transfusions prior to surgery for people with a low platelet count. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2018 Sep 17;9:CD012779. [Epub ahead of print]
• Flatt T, Partridge L. Horizons in the evolution of aging. BMC Biol. 2018 Aug 20;16(1):93.
  • Partridge L, Deelen J3, Slagboom PE. Facing up to the global challenges of ageing. Nature. 2018 Sep;561(7721):45-56. Epub 2018 Sep 5.
• Heyes J, Kelly PA, Monaghan K, Lawn M, Dhesi A, Mijovic A. A single unit transfusion policy reduces red cell transfusions in general medical in-patients. QJM. 2017 Nov 1;110(11):735-9.
• Ifland L, Bloch EM, Pitman JP. Funding blood safety in the 21st century. Transfusion. 2018 Jan;58(1):105-12.Epub 2017 Oct 13.
• Said M, Vlachaki E, Abukar J, Tsitsikas DA. A man with fever and haemoglobinuria after blood transfusion. BMJ 2018; 362 (Epub 6 Sept. 2018)
• Zeller MP, et al, Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion (BEST) Collaborative. An international investigation into AB plasma administration in hospitals: how many AB plasma units were infused? The HABSWIN study. Transfusion. 2018 Jan;58(1):151-7. Epub 2017 Oct 14.