TRANSFUSION: new guidelines and app

Update

transfusion wide

You may have already heard Anthony Holley’s podcast on the recent blood transfusion guidelines. If not click below to hear the podcast and see his slides.

The new news however is that The National Blood Authority have released the latest Module in the Patient Blood Management Guidelines.

It can be downloaded electronically or hard copies can be ordered free of charge at www.nba.gov.au/guidelines/module4.

This module is also available on the Patient Blood Management Guidelines iPad app, (see here).

Click READ MORE for the podcast and slides…

Listen to the talk here:

Here are the slides:

The podcast is also on iTunes here, give us some ratings please and leave any comments below!

icugasgirl

That’s a nice little update summary. The ratios are still debatable but if we are going to adopt a proactive approach to transfusion, the ratios are a good way to ‘remind’ the clinician that just giving blood is not enough. I have received patients who have had their total blood volume transfused but very little in the way of factors or platelets. What about in the setting of patients receiving a whole load of packed cells but no factors or platelets? When they return to the unit and their coags are normal, do we still try to ‘catch up’ with factor replacement?
The guidelines also do not discuss the new oral anticoagulants such as dabigatran or rivaroxiban in the setting of serious haemorrhage.

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