The ORBCoN Report
ORBCoN Year in Review (2023-24)
This infographic provides a snapshot of ORBCoN’s performance for the fiscal year 2023-24 and captures the most important metrics and accomplishments that reflect our company’s resilience and commitment to excellence. Dive into the numbers and insights that showcase our success over the past year.
Needs Assessment Results: ORBCoN Bloody Easy Coagulation Simplified
Troy Thompson ORBCoN Program Manager Dr. Rita Selby Hematologist & Medical Director, Coagulation Laboratories, University Health Network & Sunnybrook HSC, Bloody Easy Coagulation Author The Bloody Easy Coagulation: Simplified handbook […]
MHP 2.0 – An Educational Symposium
ORBCoN, Central Region On November 9th 2023, 109 multi-disciplinary healthcare professionals from across Ontario and beyond attended ORBCoN’s Massive Hemorrhage Protocol (MHP) 2.0 educational symposium. The goal of the symposium […]
Bloody Easy Blood Administration eLearning course- 2 Year Anniversary!
Transfusionist Education and Competency Assessment: Bloody EasyTroy Thompson- ORBCoN Program Manager and Donna Berta- ORBCoN Clinical Project Coordinator The Canadian Transfusion Medicine standards mandate that all individuals performing activities related […]
Massive Hemorrhage Protocol (MHP) Quality Metrics Portal/Dashboard
Massive Hemorrhage Protocol (MHP) Quality Metrics Portal/Dashboard
ORBCoN’s eLearning Resources- Helping to Meet Accreditation Requirements
Troy Thompson, ORBCoN Program Manager Accreditation standards requires all facilities to have a formal competency assessment program for transfusion services that includes all “team” members, including prescribing physicians. ORBCoN’s Learning […]
Are we over activating Massive Hemorrhage Protocols in Pediatric Patients?
Dylan Grimm1, Laurence Delorme1, Eric Fagan1, Na Li 2, Mark McVey3,4, Suzanne Beno5,6, Elaine Leung7,8, Lani Lieberman9,10, Troy Thompson11, Katerina Pavenski12, Jeannie Callum13, Kimmo Murto14,15 1Queen’s University, Faculty of Medicine, […]
Canadian Society For Transfusion Medicine (CSTM) Conference 2022- May 26-29th
Troy Thompson, Program Manager ORBCoN and 2022 CSTM Conference Co-Chair The CSTM Conference for 2022 will be located at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel in Toronto ON. The theme for […]
An Ethics Review of the Ontario Contingency Plan for the Management of Blood Shortages
Wendy Owens, Rebecca Barty, Troy Thompson Ontario Regional Blood Coordinating Network (ORBCoN) Following a debrief of a blood shortage simulation exercise in Ontario held in 2018 (1), a recommendation was […]
Massive Hemorrhage Protocol: Quality Metrics Portal Pilot
Troy Thompson, ORBCoN Program Manager, Dr. Jeannie Callum, Director of Transfusion Medicine, Kingston Health Sciences Centre Background A Quality Metrics reporting portal has been developed to capture 8 MHP quality […]