LearnTransfusion Series

Journal Club: When platelets don't match: A hospital and blood supplier's perspective

When
Where
Toronto/Webinar

Event details

Presented by:

Dr. Mark Bienz
Transfusion Medicine Physician Trainee
University of Toronto

Objectives:

  1. Challenges inherent to plasma-incompatible platelet transfusions.
  2. Blood-supplier based isohemagglutinin titers.
  3. How Canadian Blood Services' new initiative may facilitate safe platelet transfusions.

References:

  1. Yazer MH, Seheult J, Kleinman S, Sloan SR, Spinella PC. Who's afraid of incompatible plasma? A balanced approach to the safe transfusion of blood products containing ABO-incompatible plasma. Transfusion. 2018 Feb;58(2):532-538. doi: 10.1111/trf.14415. Epub 2017 Nov 29. PMID: 29193106. 
  2. Massey E. High Titre Anti-A/B Testing of Donors within NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) In:2019. URL: https://nhsbtdbe.blob.core.windows.net/umbraco-assets-corp/15374/inf1784-high-titre-anti-ab-testing-of-donors.pdf

 

Note: The session is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Registration: https://teams.microsoft.com/registration/L9AwSHv9KUaQX6QbtYaBRw,VKW_tqkKakqQpOHLXmbSAQ,cudJbLTFpE2uby9MJG8dog,tVWxfqsMEkiKOCtwJLudmQ,5J2wihPDXkSSP1gMwbAe3Q,dU7SM_RVQE-2IOq4WWqJsQ?mode=read&tenantId=4830d02f-fd7b-4629-905f-a41bb5868147

To register for the LearnTransfusion series, send an email to learn.transfusion@blood.ca with  “Weekly Transfusion Medicine Seminars” in the subject line. Include your name and complete e-mail address in the body of the e-mail, and confirm that you would like to register for the LearnTransfusion series. You will then receive weekly email notifications of upcoming series events with details on how to join the webinars (e.g., call-in number and a link to register for the webinar).

The LearnTransfusion series is the seminar component of the Areas of Focused Competency (AFC)-Diploma Program in Transfusion Medicine. The series, organized by Canadian Blood Services is also open to all practitioners in the field of Transfusion Medicine. Through a series of regular webinars, trainees and practitioners are exposed to various scientific, technical and clinical aspects of transfusion medicine.