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All Products (Comprehensive)

1. Clinical Practice Guidelines for the use of Blood Components,
National Health and Medical Research Council and Australasian Society of Blood Transfusion, 2002. http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/publications/synopses/cp77syn.htm

 


Alternatives to Allogeneic blood transfusion

1. Guidelines for Policies on Alternatives to Allogeneic Blood Transfusion
British Committee for Standards in Haematology, 2006. http://www.bcshguidelines.com/pdf/Predeposi_310806.pdf [pdf]



2. Perioperative Blood Transfusion for Elective Surgery

Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network, 2001 (updated 2004). http://www.sign.ac.uk/guidelines/fulltext/54/index.html



3. Practice Guidelines for Perioperative Blood Transfusion and Adjuvant Therapies
American Society of Anesthesiologists, 1996 (update 2006).
Practice Guidelines for Perioperative Blood Transfusion and Adjuvant Therapies [PubMed]

 

 


Blood Administration

 1. Blood Administration Guidelines, McMaster Transfusion, 2003.
http://www.fhs.mcmaster.ca/mtrp/questguidelines.htm

 

 


Clinical Guides and Physician Handbooks

2. Clinical Guide to Transfusion
Canadian Blood Services, 2006.
Clinical Guide to Transfusion



3. Physician’s Guide
Provincial Blood Coordinating Office (BC), 2004.
http://www.pbco.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=87&Itemid=36



4. Handbook of Transfusion Medicine, 4th edition
United Kingdom Blood Services, 2007.
http://www.transfusionguidelines.org/index.asp?Publication=HTM

 

 


Plasma

1. Guidelines for Frozen Plasma Transfusion
Provincial Blood Coordinating Office (BC), 2006.
http://www.pbco.ca/images/bcmj%20plasma_transfusion%202007.pdf



2. Guidelines for the use of Fresh Frozen Plasma, Cryoprecipitate and Cryosupernatant

British Committee for Standards in Haematology, 2004.
http://www.bcshguidelines.com/pdf/freshfrozen_280604.pdf [pdf] http://www.bcshguidelines.com/pdf/Amendments_FFP_091205.pdf [pdf] (erratum)

 

 Octaplex®

Recommendations for the use of Octaplex® in Canada

 


Platelets

1. Proposed Guidelines for Platelet Transfusion
Provincial Blood Coordinating Office (BC), 2004.
Platelet Transfusion



2. Guidelines For The Use Of Platelet Transfusions
http://www.bcshguidelines.com/pdf/platelettrans040703.pdf [pdf]

   

 3. Guidelines for investigation of suspected transfusion transmitted bacterial contamination.

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/ccdr-rmtc/08vol34/34s1/34s1-eng.php

 


Information Technology and Transfusion Medicine

1. The specification and Use of Information Technology Systems in Blood Transfusion Practice
British Committee for Standards in Haematology, 2007.
http://www.bcshguidelines.com/pdf/tme_743.pdf [pdf]

 

 

Intravenous Immune Globulin

1. Guidelines for the Use of IVIG for Hematologic and Neurologic Conditions
Canadian Blood Services and the National Advisory Committee on Blood and Blood Products, 2007.
Guidelines for the Use of IVIG for Hematologic and Neurologic Conditions

 


Neonates / Pediatric

1. Red blood cell transfusions in newborn infants
Canadian Paediatric Society, 2002 (revision in progress).
http://www.cps.ca/english/statements/FN/fn02-02.htm



2. Transfusion Guidelines For Neonates and Older Children
British Committee for Standards in Haematology, 2004.
http://www.bcshguidelines.com/pdf/Neonates_124_4_2004.pdf [pdf]
http://www.bcshguidelines.com/pdf/amendments_neonates_091205.pdf (erratum) [pdf]



3. Guidelines for Transfusion Therapy of Infants from Birth to Four Months of Age
Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research, 2004
(2nd ed.). http://www.wadsworth.org/labcert/blood_tissue/infants.htm

 


Massive transfusion

1. Guidelines on the Management of Massive Blood Loss
British Committee for Standards in Haematology, 2006.
http://www.bcshguidelines.com/pdf/bloodloss_2006.pdf [pdf]

 

 


Obstetric / Gynaecologic

1. Gynaecological and Obstetric Management of Women With Inherited Bleeding Disorders
The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, 2005. [pdf]http://www.sogc.org/guidelines/public/163E-CPG-July2005.pdf


2. Prevention of Rh Alloimmunization
The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, 2003. http://www.sogc.org/guidelines/public/133E-CPG-September2003.pdf [pdf]



3. Guidelines for the use of prophylactic anti-D immunoglobulin

British Committee for Standards in Haematology, 2006.
http://www.bcshguidelines.com/pdf/Anti-D_070606.pdf [pdf]



4. Guideline for Blood Grouping and Antibody Testing in Pregnancy
http://www.bcshguidelines.com/pdf/pregnancy_070606.pdf [pdf]

 


Red cells

1. Guidelines for Red Cell Transfusion,
Provincial Blood Coordinating Office (BC), 2003.
http://www.traqprogram.ca/Library/bc-guidelines-rbc-nov2003.asp



2. The Clinical Use of Red Cell Transfusion,
British Committee for Standards in Haematology, 2001.
http://www.bcshguidelines.com/pdf/bjh2701.pdf [pdf]



3. A Guideline for Transfusion of Red Blood Cells in Surgical Patients
National Blood Users Group (Ireland), 2001.
http://www.dohc.ie/publications/transfusion_of_red_blood_cells.html

 


Serologic Testing

1. Guideline for Blood Grouping and Antibody Testing in Pregnancy
http://www.bcshguidelines.com/pdf/pregnancy_070606.pdf [pdf]



2. Guidelines for Compatibility Procedures in Blood Transfusion Laboratories
British Committee for Standards in Haematology, 2004.
http://www.bcshguidelines.com/pdf/transfustionlabs.pdf [pdf]

 




Disclaimer:
These guidelines are provided for information purposes only and are not intended to infer a recommendation for their use. We do not accept responsibility for the accuracy or reliability of the same. The information is intended solely as an aid and should not be relied upon as constituting information upon which any medical diagnostic treatment decision should be based. Users are urged to validate all information through alternative and independent sources.

 

 

   
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