Transfusion Medicine Services for Health Professionals

Useful Links

International Committee of the Red Cross

Australian and New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion
Home site for ANZSBT

National Blood Authority
Australian Government statutory agency that manages blood and plasma product sector

National Health and Medical Research Council
NHMRC provides guidelines to improve blood and component utilisation.

Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)
Information about regulation of the blood supply in Australia.

World Health Organization

Council of Europe

UK Blood Transfusion Services Professional Advisory Committee
(Joint UK Blood Services & NI of Biological Standards & Control)
Contains Guidelines used in the UK Blood Service

AABB
Advancing transfusion and cellular therapies worldwide

Canadian Society for Transfusion Medicine
Home site for the Canadian Society for Transfusion Medicine

Canadian Blood Service
Transfusion Information for Health Professionals in Canada

CSL Limited (CSL Bioplasma)
Home site for the CSL serum laboratories. Information site for their products

Octapharma
Home site for Octapharma. Information site for their products

The Australian and South East Asian Tissue Typing Association Inc

University of Alberta, Canada
Huge listing of transfusion information sites compiled by Pat Letendre

Quality and Safety

Canadian Blood Quality program site
Contains quality programs of the Canadian Service

Serious Hazards of Transfusion Scheme
A link to the UK haemovigilance scheme

Specialist Practitioners of Transfusion
The SPOT Forum is a UK group that exists for the support and development of transfusion practitioners

Blood Matters - better safer transfusion
BeST is a Victorian state government program for improving the quality of hospital transfusion care to patients

BloodSafe

BloodSafe is an ongoing collaboration between the South Australian Department of Health, the Australian Red Cross Blood Service and Soth Australian public and private hospitals and their transfusion service providers.

Curtin University of Technology

Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide

Griffith University

Institute of Child Health, London

Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide

Macfarlane Burnet centre for Medical Research, Sydney

Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Brisbane

Queensland Institute of Medical Research

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide

Queensland University of Technology

Royal Melbourne Hospital

Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney

The Hanson Centre for Cancer Research, Adelaide

University of New South Wales

University of Queensland

University of Sydney

University of Technology Sydney

Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory (VIDRL)

Westmead Hospital, Sydney

Background information on Blood and Blood Groups

Homepage of D. Joe Chaffin, MD
General information on blood banks

Bloodbook
Handy reference for lay people and scientists
Lots of information on transfusion and blood groups. Easy to navigate

MLS University of Alberta, Rh blood groups

Information on Viral problems

World Health Organization
Fact sheet for BSE/CJD. For the latest news on vCJD

Nurse.com
A range of resources including perinatal care for the Rh negative woman

Blackwell Publishing/Practice Guidelines for prenatal and perinatal immunology
Practice guidelines for prenatal and perinatal immunohematology, revisited (Transfusion 2001 Nov; 41(11): 1445-52)
Note: need to have access rights to Blackwell Publishing to access site.