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Table of Contents

November 2003- Vol 10, No 2

1. The Bali Bombing Disaster - The Royal Darwin Hospital Blood Transfusion Laboratory's Experience
   
2. Some Thoughts on Granulocyte Transfusion Therapy
   
3. Protocols for 'Identifying' Unidentified Trauma Patients who need Emergency Transfusion
   
4. For Preventing post-transfusion CMV, does recent data merit a reassessment of the equivalence of leukoreduction to use of seronegative donors?
   
5. Letter to the Editor

May 2003- Vol 10, No 1

1. Antenatal Screening in patients receiving Prophylactic RhD Immunoglobulin
   
2. RhD Haemolytic Disease and Fetal RhD testing
   
3. Microaggreagte Filters
   
4. New Therapy For Cold Autoimmune Haemolytic Anaemia.
   
5. Transfusion Medicine Leaders urge Blood Collection Community to Immediately Initiate Program to Detect Bacteria in Platelet Products
   
6. How are Blood Banks or Transfusion Services Planning to Address the new AABB Requirement to have methods to limit and detect bacterial contamination in all platelet components?
   

November 2002 - Vol 9, No 4

1. Are there formal definitions for various transfusion scenarios - emergency, urgent & routine?
   
2. Who considers leukoreduced cellular blood products equivalent to those made from CMV seronegative donors?
   
3. Preventing pre-transfusion specimen labelling errors.
   
4. Clinical Management of the Mis-Matched Transfusion.
   
5. Serious hazards of transfusion.
   Addendum:
   Further comments from Dawn Thorp on use of infusion pumps.
   Using automatic IV infusion pumps for the transfusion of red cells.
   

June 2002 - Vol 9, No 3

1. Fresh Whole Blood - When is it warranted?
   
2. Transfusion of patients who have paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH)
   
3. Do I Need a Blood Warmer?
   
4. Can I put it through a pump?

April 2002 - Vol 9, No 2  (Special issue)

February 2002 - Vol 9, No 1

1. HLA typing: an update
   
2. Which solutions other than isotonic saline are approved for addition to blood and components?
   
3. Is it Safe for Anesthesiologists To Infuse Medications Along With Blood?
   
4. Transfusion Support in Solid-Organ Transplantation
   
5. Policies for Ensuring An Adequate Supply of O Rh Negative Blood in Emergencies

September 2001 - Vol 8, No 2

1. Blood Transfusion Safety Awareness
   
2. Serious Hazards of Transfusion - Defining the reality and implementing remedial action
   
3. Bacterial Contamination of Blood Components
   
4. Haemolytic Transfusion Reactions
   
5. ABO Incompatible Platelet Transfusions

February 2001 - Vol 8, No 1

1. What's new in Autoimmune Haemolytic Anaemia (1997-2000)
   
2. What is optimal platelet transfusion therapy?
   
3. TRALI prevention (letter to editor)

December 2000 - Vol 7, No 3

1. TRALI: Transfusion Related Acute Lung Injury
   
2. Granulocyte Transfusions
   
3. Should a reference laboratory discontinue testing for weak D for ALL patients?

September 2000 - Vol 7, No 2

1. Cord Blood Banking & Transplantation
   
2. Minimising Wastage of Unsused Thawed FFP
   
3. Elective Surgery, Preadmission Testing and the Transfusion Service
   
4. Selection of red cells in PTP and NAIT
   
5. Congress Report WAA/HSANZ/ASBT -Perth July 2000

July 2000 - Vol 7, No 1

1. Nucleic Acid Amplification Technology (NAT): Testing Blood Donors
   
2. Advances in safety and purity of blood products available in Australia

December 1999 - Vol 6, No 3

1. Haemostatic Drugs, Part 2: Antifibrinolytic Amino Acids , Conjugated Oestrogens, Erythropoietin
2. Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry (ABMDR)
   
3. New Variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease and the Risk of Transmission by Blood Transfusion
   

June 1999 - Vol 6, No 2  (Special Guidelines issue - updated 2004)

June 1999 - Vol 6, No 1

1. Haemostatic Drugs, Part 1: Desmopressin & Aprotinin
   
2. Detection of Miltenberger blood group polymorphisms: should cells carrying Miltenberger antigens be included in screening panels?
   
3. Human feto-maternal immunomodulation during pregnancy
   
4. Autologous Transfusion 3 years on: What is new? What has happened?

March 1999 - Vol 5, No 2

1. Haemostatic Drugs, Part 1: Desmopressin & Aprotinin
   
2. Research Corner
   
1. Detection of Miltenberger blood group polymorphisms: should cells carrying Miltenberger antigens be included in screening panels?
   
2. Human feto-maternal immunomodulation during pregnancy
   
3. Autologous Transfusion 3 years on: What is new? What has happened?

October 1998 - Vol 5, No 1

1. Presidential Symposium, 32nd Annual Scientific Meeting, Sydney 1998
   
2. Abstracts from the 32nd Annual Scientific Meeting, Sydney 1998:
   1. Mechanisms of immunomodulation by blood transfusion.
      
   2. The treatment of the thrombocytopenic patient: Current issues and future perspectives.
      
   3. Probe testing of plasma pools
   4. Thrombopoietin: implications for the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of platelet production.
      
   5. The molecular basis of the Kell and Duffy blood group antigens
      
3. Platelet Immunology. A not - so - trivial - pursuit
   
4. Going back to the future: the origins of a national blood service in Australia

December 1997 - Vol 4, No 2

1. Recent Literature: Autoimmune Haemolytic Anaemia 1993 - 1997
2. Cold Agglutinin Disease: A Brief Review of Red Cell Antigen Targets and a Case Report
   

July 1997 - Vol 4, No 1

1. What is Optimal Platelet Transfusion Therapy?
2. The Future of Plasma Fractionation – European Experience
3. New Insights into the Pathophysiology and Avoidance of the Immuno Hematologic Complications of Transfusion

December 1996 - Vol 3, No 4  (218KB)

1. Haematological Aspects of Liver Transplantation
   
2. Report on the IXth Triennial International Symposium on Viral Hepatitis and Liver Disease

October 1996 - Vol 3, No 3

1. Quality and Blood Transfusion. 1996 Course in Transfusion Medicine:
   
   1. Overview
   2. Risk Management and Quality Assurance
      
   3. Risk Management in Transfusion Medicine
      
2. Fresh Fish and Frozen Stem Cells. A review of the 24th ISBT Congress
   

October 1996 - Vol 3, No 2 (Special issue)

July 1996 - Vol 3, No 1 (Special issue)

December 1995 - Vol 2, No 3

1. Consensus Conference on Red Cell Transfusion, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 9 - 10 May 1994
   
2. Commentary on the Consensus Statement
   
3. Using Plasma for Pretransfusion Testing
   
4. Cytokines and Transfusion Reactions
   

August 1995 - Vol 2, No 2

1. A Review of the 47th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Blood Banks, San Diego California, 12 - 17 November 1994.
2. Adverse Effects of Blood Transfusion
   

April 1995 - Vol 2, No 1

1. A Review of the XXIIIrd Congress of the International Society of Blood Transfusion, Amsterdam July 1994
   
2. Transfusion of Patients with Haemoglobinopathies
   

December 1994 - Vol 1, No 3

1. Blood Transfusion - Information for Patients Prepared by the Scientific Subcommittee of the ASBT
   
2. A Review of the Third European Platelet and Granulocyte Immunobiology Symposium

September 1994 - Vol 1, No 2

1. The Coagulopathy of Massive Blood Transfusion: A Review
2. Transfusion Control: A new concept in nursing management

April 1994 - Vol 1, No 1

1. Leucocyte Depletion, When? Where?, How?
   
2. AABB Annual Scientific Meeting