What's New - Chronological (September 2019)

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21 September

• Simonsson P, Tjernberg I. Patient-initiated diagnostics - a challenge for laboratory medicine. [**Article in Swedish - Use Chrome browser and choose 'Translate'] Lakartidningen. 2019 Apr 2;116. pii: FIFW. | English abstract
• Australia's Monash University with industry partners develop world's first laser incubator for blood grouping and potentially pretransfusion testing (20 Sept. 2019)
  • Manderson CA, McLiesh H, Curvello R, Tabor RF, Manolios J, Garnier G. Photothermal incubation of red blood cells by laser for rapid pre-transfusion blood group typing. Sci Rep. 2019 Aug 2;9(1):11221. (Open access)
• Michael Schumacher released from Paris hospital after experimental stem cell treatment (18 Sept. 2019)
• Austrian cyclist Preidler charged with fraud in Operation Aderlass blood doping inquiry (18 Sept. 2019)
• Italy: Prosecutor considers manslaughter after woman dies after transfusion mix-up with another person with same name (17 Sept. 2019)
• Rwanda: Drones introduced to deliver blood quickly to remote rural areas (16 Sept. 2019)
• UK: Meeting of the BBTS, 18–20 Sept. 2019 - Abstracts
• Pachito DV, de Oliveira Cruz Latorraca C, Riera R. Efficacy of Platelet-Rich Plasma for non-transfusion use: Overview of Systematic Reviews. Int J Clin Pract. 2019 Aug 13:e13402. [Epub ahead of print]
• Rassi AB, d'Amico EA, Tripodi A, Rocha TRFD, Migita BY, Ferreira CM, et al. Fresh frozen plasma transfusion in patients with cirrhosis and coagulopathy: effect on conventional coagulation tests and thrombomodulin-modified thrombin generation. J Hepatol. 2019 Sep 16. pii: S0168-8278(19)30544-6. [Epub ahead of print]

19 September

• Using statistics to prevent the loss of blood donors (10 Sept. 2019) | Related:
  • Marieke Vinkenoog and BloodStart
  • Challenges and limitations in clustering blood donor hemoglobin trajectories. In: 4th Workshop on Advanced Analytics and Learning on Temporal Data at ECML PKDD (European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases), 2019.
• Industry news: Fresenius abandons plans to sell its blood transfusion business (15 Sept. 2019)
• Kranenburg FJ, le Cessie S, Caram-Deelder C, van der Bom JG, Arbous MS. Determinants of transfusion decisions in the ICU: haemoglobin concentration, what else? - a retrospective cohort study. Vox Sang. 2019 Sep 8. [Epub ahead of print]
• Ng MSY, Hay K, Choy J, Middelburg RA, Tung JP, Fraser JF. Fresh frozen plasma and platelet concentrate storage duration not associated with in hospital mortality risk. Vox Sang. 2019 Aug 27. [Epub ahead of print]
• Pachito DV, de Oliveira Cruz Latorraca C, Riera R. Efficacy of platelet-rich plasma for non-transfusion use: overview of systematic reviews. Int J Clin Pract. 2019 Aug 13:e13402. [Epub ahead of print]
• Randall DA, Patterson JA, Gallimore F, Morris JM, Simpson JM, McGee TM, Ford JB; Obstetric Transfusion Steering Group. Haemoglobin trajectories during pregnancy and associated outcomes using pooled maternity and hospitalization data from two tertiary hospitals. Vox Sang. 2019 Aug 27. [Epub ahead of print]

15 September

• Malta: After acquiring NAT NBTS eases ban on blood donation for MSM (13 Sept. 2019)
• Anair B, Ong G, Wilkinson KL, Doree C, Welton NJ, Estcourt LJ. Drugs to reduce bleeding and transfusion in adults undergoing cardiac surgery: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. Cochrane Systematic Review - Intervention - Protocol. Published: 12 Sept. 2019.
• Jackman RP, Utter GH, Lee TH, Montalvo L, Wen L, Chafets D, et al. Lack of persistent microchimerism in contemporary transfused trauma patients. Transfusion 2019 Sep 13. [Epub ahead of print]

14 September

• Study: HPV could spread via blood transfusions (12 Sept. 2019)
  • Cladel NM, Jiang P, Li JJ, Peng X, Cooper TK, Majerciak V, et al. Papillomavirus can be transmitted through the blood and produce infections in blood recipients: Evidence from two animal models. Emerg Microbes Infect. 2019;8(1):1108-21. (Free full text)
• Michael Schumacher health warning: ‘Miracle’ stem-cell treatment attacked by neurologist (12 Sept. 2019) Related:
  • U.S. FDA warns about stem cell therapies (3 Sept. 2019)
• Review of 'The King of Hell's Palace' (13 Sept. 2019) | Play about China's 1990s blood scandal. Background:
  • Chinese AIDS scandal (11 June 2001)
• Australia: Man says his story shows why rules on gay blood donors must change (13 Sept. 2019)
• Industry news (USA): Biolog-id LLC expands partnership with Hoxworth Blood Center (12 Sept. 2019)
• Ghaleb YA, Al-Somainy AA, Alamad MA, Al Serouri AA, Khader YS. Evaluation of blood transfusion services in public and private blood bank centers, Sana'a capital, Yemen. Inquiry. 2019 Jan-Dec;56:46958019870943.
• Kasim J, Aldarweesh F, Connor JP. Blood product and laboratory resource wastage in non-severe allergic transfusion reactions: an opportunity for improvement. Transfus Med. 2019 Sep 1. [Epub ahead of print]

12 September

• Hemophilia three times more prevalent worldwide than thought, study finds (11 Sept. 2019)
  • Iorio A, Stonebraker JS, Chambost H, Makris M, Coffin D, Herr C, et al. Establishing the prevalence and prevalence at birth of hemophilia in males: a meta-analytic approach using national registries. Ann Intern Med. 2019 Sep 10. [Epub ahead of print]
• Canada: Young transplant recipient gets 3-D models of his damaged heart (11 Sept. 2019)
  • Alberta boy gets ‘Star Wars’ model of his heart (3:11 min. video: it's worth the wait) (11 Sept. 2019)
• Ireland: IBTS removes permanent deferral on vCJD associated with UK residency and certain surgical procedures (Effective 7 Oct. 2019)
  • News item (11 Sept. 2019)
  • Interview on lifting the deferral with Medical & Scientific Director, Dr Stephen Field (4:38 mins)
• Allain JP. Current approaches to increase blood donations in resource-limited countries. Transfus Med. 2019 Aug 27. [Epub ahead of print]
• Ansari SH, Parveen S, Siddiqui S, Perveen K, Ahmed G, Kaleem B, et al. Managing thalassemia in the developing world: an evidence-based approach for prevention, transfusion independency, and curative treatment with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Blood Adv. 2018 Nov 30;2(Suppl 1):42-5. (Free full text)
• Nowak ES, Reyes DP, Bryant BJ, Cap AP, Kerstman EL, Antonsen EL. Blood transfusion for deep space exploration. Transfusion. 2019 Sep 6. [Epub ahead of print]

9 September

• UK: New SHOT videos (3 Sept. 2019)
  • Transfusion laboratory transfusion errors (6:50 mins)
  • Pulmonary complications of transfusion - TRAL, TACO, TAD (6:15 mins.)
• USA: FDA warning about Stemell's use of umbilical cords (4 Sept. 2019)
• BloodSafe ELearning Australia has new free courses based on Iron Deficiency Anaemia
  • IDA: 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.
• Shouval R, Fein JA, Labopin M, Kröger N, Duarte RF, Bader P, et al. Outcomes of allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation from HLA-matched and alternative donors: a European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation registry retrospective analysis. Lancet Haematol. 2019 Aug 30. pii: S2352-3026(19)30158-9. [Epub ahead of print]

7 September

• Gender equality: 'No room at the top for women scientists' (6 Sept. 2019)
  • Beeler WH, Smith-Doody KA, Ha R, Aiyar RS, Schwarzbach E, Solomon SL, Jagsi R. Institutional report cards for gender equality: lessons learned from benchmarking efforts for women in STEM. Cell Stem Cell. 2019 Sep 5;25(3):306-310. (Free full text)
• Australian study raises concerns over elderly blood management (3 Sept. 2019)
  • Simon GI, Craswell A, Thom O, Chew MS, Anstey CM, Fung YL. Impacts of aging on anemia tolerance, transfusion thresholds, and patient blood management. Transfus Med Rev. 2019 Jul;33(3):154-61. Epub 2019 Apr 5.
• Zupanic M, Rebacz P, Ehlers JP. Media use among students from different health curricula: survey study. JMIR Med Educ. 2019 Aug 19; 5(2):e12809. (Free full text)
• Resuscitation from hemorrhagic shock via transfusion of anaerobically stored RBCs improves outcomes in rats (4 Sept. 2019)
  • Williams AT, Jani VP, Nemkov T, Lucas A, Yoshida T, Dunham A, et al. Transfusion of anaerobically or conventionally stored blood after hemorrhagic shock. Shock. 2019 Aug 30. [Epub ahead of print]
• UK (Infected Blood Inquiry): Anger over key Dept of Health documents marked 'irrelevant' by government auditor (4 Sept. 2019)
• Orzinska A, Guz K, Brojer E. Potential of next-generation sequencing to match blood group antigens for transfusion. Int J Clin Transfus Med 2019 Sep 3;2019:7:11-22 (Free full text)

6 September

• Canada: CSTM Education Day (Comox, BC, 20 Sept. 2019)
• Canada (BC PBCO/CBS): 20th Annual Education Day on Blood Transfusion Issues (New Westminster, BC; 3 Oct. 2019) | Registration form
• Blumberg N, Cholette JM, Cahill C, Pietropaoli AP, Winters S, Phipps R, et al. Transfusion medicine: A research agenda for the coming years. Transfus Apher Sci. 2019 Aug 6. pii: S1473-0502(19)30160-0. [Epub ahead of print]
• Callum JL, Yeh CH, Petrosoniak A, McVey MJ, Cope S, Thompson T, et al. A regional massive hemorrhage protocol developed through a modified Delphi technique. CMAJ Open. 2019 Sep 3;7(3):E546-E561. Print 2019 Jul-Sep. (Open access)

1 September

• Artificial intelligence in medicine: applications, implications, and limitations (19 June 2019) Related:
  • Chen JH, Asch SM.Machine learning and prediction in medicine — beyond the peak of inflated expectations. N Engl J Med. 2017 Jun 29; 376(26): 2507–9. (Free full text)
• Pakistan: The culture of blood donation (1 Sept. 2019)