[HTML][HTML] Transfusion Camp: successes and challenges in scaling and expanding a transfusion medicine education program

Y Lin, A Khandelwal, C Kapitany, S Chargé - Transfusion and Apheresis …, 2023 - Elsevier
Conclusion Transfusion Camp has demonstrated the capacity to improve trainee attitudes
towards transfusion education, increase trainee transfusion knowledge and impact trainee …

Optimizing Informed Consent Discussions: Developing a Narrative for Transfusion Consent

MP Zeller, M Laureano, A Khandelwal, SJ Lane… - Transfusion Medicine …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ensuring patient informed consent is a key tenet of modern medicine. Although transfusion
of blood products is among the most common medical procedures performed in hospitalized …

Transfusion Camp Rwanda: A prospective feasibility study evaluating the delivery of Transfusion Camp to a multidisciplinary group of postgraduate medical trainees …

J Hagumimana, T Skelton, J Pendergrast… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Safe blood transfusion is an increasing priority in global health equity. The
Global Health 2030 commission lists access to a safe blood supply as essential for all …

Transfusion medicine education delivery in Rwanda: Adapting Transfusion Camp to a resource‐limited setting

T Skelton, F Nizeyimana, J Pendergrast… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Due to few teaching faculty, resource‐limited settings may lack the education
curricula providers need for safe practice. As safe surgery becomes an increasing priority …

Evaluating the appropriateness of platelet transfusions compared with evidence‐based platelet guidelines: An audit of platelet transfusions at 57 hospitals

MJ Hill‐Strathy, PH Pinkerton, TA Thompson… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Platelet transfusions are used to prevent or control bleeding in patients with
thrombocytopenia or platelet dysfunction. The pretransfusion platelet count threshold has …

Hospital medicine providers' transfusion knowledge: a survey study

B Halford, A Pinheiro, RL Haspel - Transfusion Medicine Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Blood transfusion is one of the most common procedures performed in the inpatient setting.
Although ordering a transfusion is a component of routine practice for most hospitalists, prior …

Transfusion camp: a retrospective study of self‐reported impact on postgraduate trainee transfusion practice

KCY Yeung, C Kapitany, S Chargé, J Callum… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background The optimal method of postgraduate transfusion medicine (TM) education
remains understudied. One novel approach is Transfusion Camp, a longitudinal 5‐day …

Transfusion medicine and blood banking education and training for blood establishment laboratory staff: a review of selected countries in Africa

V Rambiritch, M Vermeulen, H Bell, P Knox… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Avoidable human error is a significant cause of transfusion adverse events.
Adequately trained, laboratory staff in blood establishments and blood banks, collectively …

Anesthesiology resident knowledge of transfusion medicine: results from the anesthesiology transfusion education study

NR Connelly, AC Adler, LE Vanderberg… - Anesthesia & …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND: Transfusion of blood products is a common practice in anesthesiology.
Inadequate transfusion medicine knowledge may lead to inappropriate transfusion practices …

Paediatric clinical decision support: Evaluation of a best practice alert for red blood cell transfusion

BD Adkins, R Murfin, HS Luu, DK Noland - Vox Sanguinis, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background and Objectives Providing red blood cell (RBC) transfusion to paediatric
patients with a haemoglobin (Hb) level of< 7 g/dL is the current best practice, but it is often …