The ORBCoN Report
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 […]
Major clinical trial finds convalescent plasma does not help patients with COVID-19
Dimpy Modi, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto QUEST Transfusion Research Program, Research Analyst. While the race to develop antivirals and vaccines for COVID-19 had begun in early 2020, […]
Patient Engagement in the CONCOR-1 Trial: Formation and Involvement of the Community Advisory Committee
Emily Sirotich BSc, PhD candidate, McMaster Centre for Transfusion Research. Patient and public engagement in research is a growing movement to involve diverse stakeholders who bring relevant knowledge and experience to a […]
Whither convalescent plasma therapy?
1. Whither convalescent plasma therapy?