Educational Information & General Reference

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)
• Nobelprize.org Blood Typing online learning module (Flash 5 or greater plugin required to use)

General Reference & Useful Guides

• California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC): a multi-stakeholder organization whose mission is to eliminate preventable maternal deaths and injuries. Also see: CMQCC OB Hemorrhage Task Force
• BioMedSearch.com: a new site with an enhanced version of the NIH PubMed search that contains all PubMed/MedLine publications, additional full-text journals and a database of theses and dissertations. Free registration.
• 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)
• Hema-Quebec Medication Donor Deferral List
• 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)
• Offical Mad Cow Disease Home Page
• Latest Information on vCJD and the blood supply (TraQ, Canada)