Transfusion Medicine Topic Center

Fostering excellence in the practice and safety of transfusion medicine.

Resources and educational material in the field of transfusion medicine.

Policing blood use pays off for Allina Laboratories (March 2013)
Slowing the flow in blood Tx (Sept 2012)
RBC storage duration: Is older riskier? (Oct 2011)
Biovigilance network advancing slowly—but it’s progress (Oct 2011)
Transfusion practices: In cardiac surgery, there will be blood—but why? (Dec 2010)
New blood transfusion—studies in brief (Dec 2010)
Scuttling surrogate testing of platelets (Nov 2010)
Information technology in cellular therapy (June 2010)
Closing the gap in transfusion-related iron overload (May 2010)
Mostly male plasma sends TRALI rates south (Oct 2009)
Disabling mislabeling—solutions for blood banks (Jan 2009)

Pretransfusion Testing Practices in North America, 2005-2010 (Mar. 2012)
Managing Transfusion Service Quality (Nov. 2011)
Blood Bank Safety Practices: Mislabeled Samples and Wrong Blood in Tube—A Q-Probes Analysis of 122 Clinical Laboratories (Aug. 2010)
Effectiveness of the RhIg Dose Calculator (Jul. 2010)
Inaccurate Doses of Rh Immune Globulin After Rh-Incompatible Fetomaternal Hemorrhage—Survey of Laboratory Practice (Dec. 2009)
Glenn Ramsey. Inaccurate Doses of Rh Immune Globulin After Rh-Incompatible Fetomaternal Hemorrhage: Survey of Laboratory Practice (Mar. 2009)