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Australia

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

• Royal Children's Hospital
  • Blood Transfusion [2009]

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

Canada

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

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Guideline for investigation of suspected transfusion transmitted bacterial contamination [2008]
  • Transfusion Transmitted Injuries Section - Blood Safety Surveillance and Health Care Acquired Infections Division
  • Bloodborne Pathogens Section - Blood Safety Surveillance and Health Care Acquired Infections Division

• Toward Optimized Practice
  • Red Blood Cell and Plasma Transfusion: A Summary [2009]

Europe

• European Commission - Public Health
  • Blood

India

• Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
  • 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 [2009]
  • Cell salvage for minimising perioperative allogeneic blood transfusion [2009]
  • Anti-fibrinolytic use for minimising perioperative allogeneic blood transfusion [2009]

• UNAIDS: The Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS
  • Universal precautions and blood safety

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

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

Netherlands

• Health Council of the Netherlands
  • Should blood donors be tested for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease? [2007]

PAHO

• Pan American Health Organization
  • The Role of Laboratories and Blood Banks in Disaster Situations [2002]
  • Retreat on Blood Safety [2000]

South Africa

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

United Kingdom

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

• British Society for Haematology
  • The specification and use of Information Technology (IT) systems in Blood Transfusion Practice [2007]
  • Guidelines for policies on alternatives to allogeneic blood transfusion : predeposit autologous blood donation and transfusion [2007]
  • Amendment to the Guidelines for the use of fresh-frozen plasma, cryoprecipitate and cryosupernatant [2007]
  • Guidelines for the use of Fresh Frozen Plasma, Cryoprecipitate and Cryosupernatant [2004]
  • Guidelines for compatibility procedures in blood transfusion laboratories [2004]
  • Guidelines for the clinical use of red cell tranfusion [2001]
  • Guidelines for blood bank computing [2000]
  • Guidelines for the administration of blood and blood components and the management of transfused patients [1999]
  • Blood Transfusion

• Clinical Resource Efficiency Support Team
  • Better use of blood in Northern Ireland - guidelines for blood transfusion practice [2001]

• Department of Health
  • The National Blood Transfusion Committee
  • Blood safety general information
  • Blood

• Health Protection Agency
  • Bloodborne infections in blood donors

• 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]

• NHS Quality Improvement Scotland
  • Blood Transfusion Clinical Standards [2006]
  • Safe and Effective Transfusion in Scottish Hospitals - The Role of the Transfusion Nurse Specialist [2004]
  • Report of the Steering Group on the Safe, Effective and Efficient Use of Blood Components and their Alternatives [2004]

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

United States of America

• American Society of Anesthesiologists
  • Practice Guidelines for Perioperative Blood Transfusion and Adjuvant Therapies: An Updated Report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Perioperative Blood Transfusion and Adjuvant Therapies [2005]

• Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration
  • Transfusion Verification and Identification Requirements for all Sites [2005]

• Food and Drug Administration
  • Blood Products Advisory Committee
  • Blood & Blood Products

• 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]
  • (1) Perioperative blood transfusion for elective surgery. A national clinical guideline. (2) Perioperative blood transfusion for elective surgery. Update to printed guideline. Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network [2001]

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

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • The Blood Cold Chain [2002]
  • Aide-Mémoire on Quality Systems for Blood Safety [2002]
  • Aide-Mémoire on Blood Safety for National Blood Programmes [2002]
  • The Clinical Use of Blood in Medicine, Obstetrics, Paediatrics, Surgery and Anaesthesia, Trauma and Burns [2001]
  • Recommendations from the WHO Regional Workshop on Quality Assurance and Safety of Plasma Derivatives [2001]
  • Clinical Use of Blood Handbook [2001]
  • Blood Safety and Clinical Technology Strategy 2000-2003 [2001]
  • Blood Tranfusion Safety

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
  • 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]
  • Reducing the Risk of Blood Transfusion [2001]
  • 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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