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Australia

• Department of Health and Ageing
  • Vaccination of patients following receipt of other blood products including blood transfusions [2009]

• National Health and Medical Research Council
  • Clinical Practice Guidelines for the use of Blood Components [2001]

• Women & Newborn Health Service - Western Australia
  • Haematology Transfusion Medicine Protocols [2008]

Bhutan

• Ministry of Health Bhutan
  • National Guidelines on Appropriate Clinical Use of Blood for Doctors, Assistant Clinical Officers and Nurses [2009]
  • National Blood Policy [2007]

Canada

• BC Provincial Blood Coordinating Office
  • BC Provincial Blood Coordinating Office - Guidelines

India

• Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India
  • Guidelines for setting up blood storage centres at first referral units [2003]

International

• Cochrane Library
  • Skin preparation with alcohol versus alcohol followed by any antiseptic for preventing bacteraemia or contamination of blood for transfusion
  • Cell salvage for minimising perioperative allogeneic blood transfusion
  • Anti-fibrinolytic use for minimising perioperative allogeneic blood transfusion

Ireland

• Department of Health and Children
  • National Blood Strategy Implementation Group Report [2004]
  • A guideline for transfusion of red blood cells in surgical patients [2001]

Italy

• Blood Transfusion
  • Recommendations for the transfusion management of patients in the peri-operative period. I. The pre-operative period [2011]
  • Recommendations for the transfusion of plasma and platelets [2009]

• Società Italiana di Medicina Trasfusionale e Immunoematologia
  • Recommendations for the transfusion of plasma and platelets [2009]

Myanmar

• Asian Journal of Transfusion Science
  • Status report of the blood transfusion services in Myanmar [2009]

Oman

• Ministry of Health Oman
  • Development of blood transfusion service in Sultanate of Oman [2010]

South Africa

• Department of Health South Africa
  • Clinical Guidelines for the use of Blood products in South Africa - 3rd Edition [2003]

United Kingdom

• Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland
  • Blood transfusion and the anaesthetist: management of massive haemorrhage [2011]
  • Blood Transfusion and the Anaesthetists - Intra-operative Cell Salvage [2009]
  • Blood Transfusion and the Anaesthetist - Red Cell Transfusion [2008]
  • Blood Transfusion and the Anaesthetist - Blood Component Therapy [2005]

• British Blood Transfusion Society
  • UK Transfusion Laboratory Collaborative: Recommended minimum standards for hospital transfusion laboratories [2009]

• British Society for Haematology
  • Transfusion

• Department of Health UK
  • The National Blood Transfusion Committee
  • Blood

• Health Technology Assessment
  • Deferasirox for the treatment of iron overload associated with regular blood transfusions (transfusional haemosiderosis) in patients suffering with chronic anaemia: a systematic review and economic evaluation [2009]

• UK Blood Transfusion and Tissue Transplantation Guidelines
  • UK Blood Transfusion and Tissue Transplantation Guidelines

United States of America

• Food and Drug Administration
  • Blood Products Advisory Committee

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Blood transfusion: indications and administration. Finnish Medical Society Duodecim [2008]
  • Guidelines for policies on alternatives to allogeneic blood transfusion. 1. Predeposit autologous blood donation and transfusion. British Committee for Standards in Haematology [2007]

• University of Michigan Evidence-Based Pediatrics
  • A Lower Hemoglobin Transfusion Threshold Is Safe for Stable Critically Ill Children [2009]

WHO

• Pan American Health Organization
  • The Role of Laboratories and Blood Banks in Disaster Situations [2002]

• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • Design guidelines for blood centres [2010]

• World Health Organization
  • The Clinical Use of Blood in Medicine, Obstetrics, Paediatrics, Surgery and Anaesthesia, Trauma and Burns [2001]
  • Clinical Use of Blood Handbook [2001]

Articles in journals

• Blood
  • Transfusion-related acute lung injury [2005]

• British Journal of Anaesthesia
  • Blood transfusion in critical illness [2002]

• Canadian Medical Association Journal
  • Blood conservation strategies to reduce the need for red blood cell transfusion in critically ill patients [2008]
  • Prospective audit of the use of fresh-frozen plasma, based on Canadian Medical Association transfusion guidelines [2002]

• Chest
  • Anemia, Allogenic Blood Transfusion, and Immunomodulation in the Critically Ill [2005]

• Clinical Chemistry
  • Transfusion Medicine: An Overview and Update [2000]

• Clinics
  • Blood tranfusion in critically ill patients: state of the art [2007]

• Critical Care
  • Debate: Transfusing to normal haemoglobin levels will not improve outcome [2001]

• Hematology
  • Transfusion in the age of molecular diagnostics [2009]
  • The Evidence-Based Use of FFP and Cryoprecipitate for Abnormalities of Coagulation Tests and Clinical Coagulopathy [2007]
  • Management of RBC-Transfusion Dependence [2007]
  • Blood and Coagulation Support in Trauma Care [2007]
  • Red Cell Antigens as Functional Molecules and Obstacles to Transfusion [2002]
  • Preserving the National Blood Supply [2001]

• Medical Journal of Australia
  • Appropriateness of platelet, fresh frozen plasma and cryoprecipitate transfusion in New South Wales public hospitals [2003]

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