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Updated: May 20, 2025
List of the provincial blood coordinating offices in Canada.
Alberta Blood Coordinating Program
B.C. Provincial Blood Coordinating Office (PBCO)
Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Blood Coordinating Program
Nova Scotia Provincial Blood Coordinating Program
(website under construction, please email NSPBCP@nshealth.ca)
List of associations and societies related to transfusion medicine.
American Society for Apheresis (ASFA)
Association for the Advancement of Blood and Biotherapies (AABB)
Australian Red Cross Blood Service
British Blood Transfusion Society (BBTS)
California Blood Bank Society (CBBS)
Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society (CAS)
Canadian Medical Association (CMA)
Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science (CSMLS)
International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT)
Medical Laboratory Professionals’ Association of Ontario (MLPAO)
National Advisory Committee on Blood and Blood Products
Network for Advancement of Transfusion Alternatives (NATA)
Patient Notification System From Plasma Protein Therapeutics Association (PPTA)
Plasma Protein Therapeutics Association (PPTA)
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
Sickle Cell Awareness Group of Ontario (SCAGO)
Society for the Advancement of Blood Management (SABM)
List of links to reference standards in transfusion medicine.
Circular of Information
Ottawa: Canadian Blood Services
CSA (CSA Group) CAN/CSA-Z902:25 - Blood and blood components
CSA Group, 2025
Guideline for Red Blood and Plasma Transfusion: A Summary Toward Optimal Practice (TOP). Expert Working Group: Guidelines for Red Blood Cell and Plasma Transfusion for Adults and Children.
International Collaborative for Transfusion Medicine Guidelines
Recommendations for Use of Prothrombin Complex Concentrates in Canada
National Advisory Committee on Blood and Blood Products
Standards for Blood Banks and Transfusion Services. 34th ed.
Bethesda (MD): AABB, 2024
List of links to textbooks in transfusion medicine.
AABB Technical Manual, 21st edition
Bethesda (MD): AABB Press
Apheresis: Principles and Practice, 4th ed
Bethsda (Md): AABB Press, 2020
Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine - Basic Principles and Practice, 2nd ed
Hillyer CD, Silberstein LE, Ness PM, Anderson KC, Roback JD, 2007
Blood Transfusion Therapy: A Handbook, 14th ed
Cushing, M, Poisson, J. Bandarenko, N., editors
Bethesda (MD): AABB
Bloody Easy 5.1: Blood Transfusions, Blood Alternatives and Transfusion Reactions, A Guide to Transfusion Medicine
Callum JL, Lin Y, Pinkerton PH.
5th ed Canada: Ontario Regoinal Blood Coordinating Network
Clinical Guide to Transfusion
Canadian Blood Services, on-line edition
Modern Blood Banking & Transfusion Practices, 7th ed
Harmening DM.
Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company, 2019
Mollison's Blood Transfusion in Clinical Medicine
Klein HG, Anstee DJ.
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014
Pediatric Transfusion: A Physician's Handbook, 5th edition
Wong ECC, Roseff SD, King KE, editors
Bethesda (MD): AABB
The BC Transfusion Practitioner Handbook
British Columbia Provincial Blood Coordinating Office, 2023
Practical Guide to Transfusion Medicine, 2nd ed
Petrides M, Stack G, Cooling L, Maes LY.
2nd ed: AABB Press, 2007.
Rossi's Principles of Transfusion Medicine, 5th ed
Simon TL, Dzik WH, Snyder EL, Stowell CP, Strauss RG.
UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
Therapeutic Apheresis: A Handbook, 7th ed
Published jointly by AABB and the American Society for Apheresis (ASFA), 2024
Transfusion Medicine, 5th ed
McCullough J.
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2021
Transfusion Reactions, 4th ed
Popovsky MA, editor
Transfusion Therapy: Clinical Principles and Practice, 4th ed
Mintz PD, editor
Bethesda (MD): AABB Press. 2019
List of links to additional educational resources related to transfusion medicine.
Sickle Cell Disease Education Program for Healthcare Professionals
Sickle Cell Awareness Group of Ontario (SCAGO)
List of links related to research databases in transfusion medicine.
List of links related to news sources in transfusion medicine.