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]
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