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Provincial Massive Hemorrhage Toolkit
A comprehensive toolkit was developed to provide guidance for Ontario hospitals in the implementation of Ontario’s Recommendations for Massive Hemorrhage Protocol. The toolkit addresses select patient populations and differences in hospital sizes, resources and geographical challenges.
Released April 30, 2021
Transfusion Checklist Poster
This one page poster details the essential steps to ensure blood is administered safely. This document can be downloaded, printed and edited to suit your specific hospital policies. June 2021 Version 1.0
Ontario IVIG Infusion Guide and Adverse Reaction Chart
This resource provides health care practitioners involved in the infusion of IVIG with evidence informed, best practice guidance. For each IVIGbrand, an infusion rate table (mL/kg/hour) based on the product monograph recommendations and patient weight increments is provided. Aswell, an IVIG specific adverse reactions chart with suggested actions, treatments, and strategies to mitigate is included.
April 2022
In This Issue
- Transfusion Reaction Reporting
- Canadian Society For Transfusion Medicine (CSTM) Conference 2022- May 26-29th
- Celebrating National Medical Laboratory Week
- Register: CSTM 2022 Annual Conference
- Register: Perinatal Consensus Conference
- Featured Resource: IVIG Infusion Guide
- Coming Soon: Transfusion Medicine Education Web Conference Archive Video
- Upcoming Event: University of Toronto Transfusion Medicine Rounds
Transfusion Reaction Reporting
Donna Berta RN BScN, Clinical Project Coordinator – Nursing, ORBCoN
Hemovigilance has been described as surveillance measures spanning the entire transfusion process from blood collection to blood recipient follow-up. Information on adverse transfusion effects is compiled to limit re-occurrence. The goal of reporting and evaluating adverse events is to improve transfusion safety.
Canada’s national hemovigilance system, Transfusion Tr [...]