Canadian Blood Services Update
Kaylee Brooks, Canadian Blood Services
Canadian Blood Services supports best practices in transfusion medicine through the development of educational resources published on our Professional Education website. 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.
These resources have the biggest impact when they’re read and shared! We invite you to explore and share our recent publications:
Clinical Guide to Transfusion: A practical summary of current transfusion medicine for healthcare professionals in Canada.
- Chapter 18 – Platelet transfusion, alloimmunization and management of platelet refractoriness: Minor update to the chapter content, including the calculated panel reactive antibody (cPRA) threshold and a new section on platelet transfusion support for recipients of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplants (HSCT).
Publications: Transfusion medicine resources to support clinical practice and help healthcare professionals stay up to date.
- Uniform labelling. This resource hosts the updated Canadian Guidelines for the Uniform Labelling of Blood and Blood Components Using ISBT 128 as well as answers frequently asked questions regarding ISBT 128 Standards. Available in English and French.
- Canadian Recipient Hemovigilance Renewal. This webpage provides access to the Canadian Recipient Hemovigilance System Renewal Process Recommendations paper. It is shared with the transfusion community to support transparency and broad awareness of the engagement outcomes. Available in English and French.
Webinar resources: Breakthroughs in blood: Advancements into action. Breakthroughs in blood is a webinar series for sharing groundbreaking findings in blood research and promoting best practices in transfusion. On our professional education website, you’ll find webinar recordings and resources to support practice change. The resources are for health-care professionals, hospital administrators, policy makers and researchers.
- New resources and recording available for our lastest webinar, titled “Postoperative 20% Albumin Infusion and Acute Kidney Injury in High-Risk Cardiac Surgery Patients” from June 16, 2026. Learn more here!
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