Welcome to the Transfusion Ontario Resource Centre

ORBCoN has a goal to provide timely and relevant information to its stakeholders:

• hospital personnel involved in transfusion medicine
  
• patients or their families that may be expecting to receive or
  have received a blood transfusion as part of their medical care

Many of the educational materials on transfusionontario were developed by previous projects funded by the MOHLTC in Ontario and are available in both English and French. ORBCoN would like to share these products of past initiatives to help provide information to patients and healthcare professionals involved with transfusion medicine. Please see below for the list of available publications. Note, access to some of the content will require users to log on as members. (Ordering information is also available – please refer to the order pamphlet.)

In addition to the resources mentioned above, here you will find a wealth of information to help you in your work relating to blood components and blood products. We have included many resources and links. To list a few:

• Comprehensive collection of practice guidelines
• SWIM and SOS manuals
• Links to helpful websites
• Inventory Management toolkit

Please click here to order more publications

	Literature West Nile Virus Safety and Regulatory Overview by Health Canada. Sharing our Strategies manual Blood product information for physicians Buffy Coat		Guidelines All Products  Alternatives to Allogeneic Blood  Blood Administration  Clinical Guides  Plasma Octaplex® Platelets  Information technology in Transfusion  Intravenous Immune Globulin  Neonatal / Pediatric  Massive transfusion  Obstetric / Gynaecologic  Red Cells  Serologic testing All Guidelines		Free Online Course for Nurses Learn about blood and transfusion Helpful documents for hospitals preparing for Buffy Coat products
	Forms Process for Requesting Synagis™  Ontario Risk assessment tool Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) request form Presentations Information for Nurses     E-learning tools   Bloody Easy TraQ Case Studies		SWIM Procedures Pre-Analysis Routine Testing Bone Marrow Transplantation Gel Methods Non-Routine Testing Special Procedures Reagent Preparation Component Selection and Preparation Inventory Management Quality Control, Assurance Administration All SWIM Procedures Membership log on will be required to access this document