Educational Info

• "Red Gold"
• Bloody E@sy Online Course
• "My Blood, Your Blood" - an entertaining and instructional multimedia package for students K-12
• The Rhesus Site
• "The Strange Case of Penny Allison" - death from mistaken ID in blood transfusion (NBS/UK)
• ebloodbank (Chiron)
• Nobelprize.org Blood Typing online learning module (Flash 5 or greater plugin required to use)

General Reference & Useful Guides

• Guidance for Industry: Recognition and Use of a Standard for Uniform Blood and Blood Component Container Labels (FDA/CBER) Also see: United States Industry Consensus Standard for the Uniform Labeling of Blood and Blood Components Using ISBT 128 (ICCBBA, Nov. 2005, Version 2.0.0)
• Standardized Donor Deferral Lists
  • ASBPO - As of February 2007, the Armed Services Blood Program Standardized Donor Deferral Lists are no longer available in the public area of the ASBP Web site. These lists are provided as guidance to military blood collection centers and are now accessible only to military staff members.
  • Hema-Quebec
• A pocket guide on guidelines for suspected transfusion reactions pdf (Sunnybrook & Women's Hospital, Toronto)
• Guideline for Investigation of Suspected Transfusion Transmitted Bacterial Contamination (Public Health Agency of Canada)
• Blood Matters Newsletter (Provincial Blood Coordinating Office, British Columbia)
• Medical Event Reporting System (MERS) - Transfusion
• Offical Mad Cow Disease Home Page
• Latest Information on vCJD and the blood supply (TraQ, Canada)