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Top 5 R.E.D. Blog posts of 2024

This year, the most viewed R.E.D. blog posts of the past year feature some of the incredible researchers and trainees that were part of Canadian Blood Services’ research and education network in 2024: 5. Physician trainee promotes uptake of patient blood management in new publication The referenced media source is missing and needs to be re-embedded. Patient blood management (PBM) is a patient-centred, evidence-based, multidisciplinary approach to caring for patients who might need a blood transfusion, often with a focus on the time before surgery occurs, which is known as the “perioperative

Post date: December 13, 2024

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You’re invited to take our new Virtual Tour!

New Tour introduces journey of blood donation Canadian Blood Services’ new Virtual Tour provides an easy to access, highly visual introduction to the journey of a blood donation from donor to recipient and is now available on Canadian Blood Services professional education website, Profedu.ca. Originally envisioned as a centralized and interactive tool to help introduce new medical and laboratory trainees to information about Canada’s blood system, the Virtual Tour promotes awareness of the step-by-step processes for recruiting donors and collecting, manufacturing, testing, labelling, storing

Post date: December 10, 2024

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Perseverance and collaboration: How a new clinical trial aims to determine whether sex matters when matching blood products to patients

As the Principal Investigator for the SexMatters trial described in this blog, Dr. Mickey Zeller is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at McMaster University. She is also a Medical Officer at Canadian Blood Services. Around 2018, Dr. Mickey Zeller's grandmother asked her a question that she couldn’t fully answer at the time. It’s a question that Dr. Zeller continues to keep top-of-mind in her roles as an Associate Professor at McMaster University and a Medical Officer at Canadian Blood Services. Having sustained a pelvic fracture at the age of 94, she asked her granddaughter

Post date: October 31, 2024

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