Transfusion medicine

Canadian Blood Services supports best practices in transfusion medicine through the development of educational resources. Written by subject-matter experts from across Canada, our transfusion medicine resources support clinical practice and help health-care professionals stay current in an ever-changing field.

If you are a health-care professional working in transfusion medicine and have a comment or suggestions for new resources, please get in touch.

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Aditi Khandelwal
Transfusion Medicine Specialist and Hematologist

Professional education website audience survey for transfusion resources

Share your feedback on the transfusion resources on Profedu.ca through our online survey; it can be completed in approximately 10 minutes! This survey is being conducted to help Canadian Blood Services continuously improve the transfusion medicine resources on ProfEdu.ca, to align with the needs of the transfusion medicine community. Thank you for helping us improve ProfEdu and supporting the transfusion medicine community.

Serological best practices

Platelet transfusions can help provide functional platelets to prevent or treat bleeding. This chapter describes the process of collecting, manufacturing and storing platelets for transfusion, summarizes clinical practice recommendations for platelet transfusions, and provides information on adverse reactions and platelet refractoriness.

Platelet transfusion, alloimmunization and management of platelet refractoriness

Platelet transfusions can help provide functional platelets to prevent or treat bleeding. This chapter describes the process of collecting, manufacturing and storing platelets for transfusion, summarizes clinical practice recommendations for platelet transfusions, and provides information on adverse reactions and platelet refractoriness.

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