The ORBCoN Report
Choosing wisely when performing antenatal and postnatal transfusion tests: conference highlights.
Sheena Scheuermann, Regional Project Coordinator, ORBCoN On May 25th, 2022 ORBCoN hosted a national Perinatal Consensus Conference. The event was attended by 97 delegates from across Ontario, and across Canada. […]
Password Managers can Help Protect your Hospital Network from Cyber Attacks
Andrew Duyvestyn, Information Technology AnalystOntario Regional Blood Coordinating Network Cyber security in healthcare networks is increasingly important; the recent cyberattack on the Newfoundland and Labrador (N.L.) healthcare system is being […]
Are we closer to seeing the end of cryoprecipitate in Ontario?
Jeannie Callum, BA, MD, FRCPCDirector of Transfusion Medicine, Kingston Health Sciences Centre In October of 2019, the results of the FIBRES trial were simultaneously released in both JAMA and at […]
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 […]
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 […]
CSTM Standards Version 5: What to expect in this version
Danielle Watson-Kinney CSTM Standards Committee (Chair),Dr. Elaine Leung Haematopathologist; Division of Haematology and Transfusion Medicine Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) The CSTM Standards for Hospital Transfusion Services, Version 5 […]
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 […]
Bloody Easy at 20.
Dr. Peter Pinkerton, Division of Transfusion Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Co-author Bloody Easy: Blood Transfusions, Blood Alternatives and Transfusion Reactions. Fifty years ago, the culture of blood transfusion […]