Topic Teaching: Transfusion Reaction Cases

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Event details

Presented by:

Andrew Shih, MD, FRCPC, DRCPSC, BSc, HRM MSc.
Clinical Associate Professor, University of British Columbia
Medical Director/Regional Medical Leader, Transfusion Medicine
Vancouver Acute/Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

Objectives:

After discussing cases, learners will be able to diagnose and manage transfusion reactions relating to:

  1. Dyspnea
  2. Allergic reactions
  3. Delayed hemolytic transfusion reaction

References:

1.    A consensus redefinition of transfusion-related acute lung injury.  Vlaar APJ, Toy P, Fung M, Looney MR, Juffermans NP, Bux J, Bolton-Maggs P, Peters AL, Silliman CC, Kor DJ, Kleinman S.Transfusion. 2019 Jul;59(7):2465-2476. doi: 10.1111/trf.15311. Epub 2019 Apr 16.PMID: 30993745.
2.    The entity of immunoglobulin A-related anaphylactic transfusion reactions is not evidence based.  Sandler SG, Eder AF, Goldman M, Winters JL.  Transfusion. 2015 Jan;55(1):199-204. doi: 10.1111/trf.12796. Epub 2014 Jul 28.PMID:  25066014.
3.    Transfusion reactions: prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.  Delaney M, Wendel S, Bercovitz RS, Cid J, Cohn C, Dunbar NM, Apelseth TO, Popovsky M, Stanworth SJ, Tinmouth A, Van De Watering L, Waters JH, Yazer M, Ziman A; Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion (BEST) Collaborative.Lancet. 2016 Dec 3;388(10061):2825-2836. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)01313-6. Epub 2016 Apr 12.PMID:  27083327.

 

Note: The session is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

To register for the LearnTransfusion series, send an email to learn.transfusion@blood.ca with  “Weekly Transfusion Medicine Seminars” in the subject line. Include your name and complete e-mail address in the body of the e-mail, and confirm that you would like to register for the LearnTransfusion series. You will then receive weekly email notifications of upcoming series events with details on how to join the webinars (e.g., call-in number and a link to register for the webinar).

The LearnTransfusion series is the seminar component of the Areas of Focused Competency (AFC)-Diploma Program in Transfusion Medicine. The series, organized by Canadian Blood Services is also open to all practitioners in the field of Transfusion Medicine. Through a series of regular webinars, trainees and practitioners are exposed to various scientific, technical and clinical aspects of transfusion medicine.