… Messenger chat bots Monday, June 05, 2017 New chat bot a world’s first among national blood operators (OTTAWA) – Canadian Blood Services, together with EY, have announced a world’s first among national blood operators by introducing …

… series Battling bacteria - part I  Leukoreduction   In a previous post , we wrote about the donor screening … entire blood product manufacturing process is conducted in a “closed-system”. Through a clever set-up of tubings and … M, Yi QL, Eltringham-Smith LJ, Sheffield WP, Ramirez-Arcos S. Vox Sang. 2017 May 3. doi: 10.1111/vox.12513.  Bacteria …

… patients (OTTAWA) – National Blood Donor Week is typically a time to celebrate donors across the country. This year, however, Canadian Blood Services is focused on a critical need for blood donations and is urging Canadians … to fill more than 150,000 donation appointments by Canada’s 150th birthday to ensure that there is enough blood to meet …

… look back on Canadian innovations in transfusion medicine. A series of posts over the weeks leading up to and following Canada's 150th birthday feature remarkable Canadian progress in … training in U.S. hospitals to the front line.   Image L. Bruce Robertson beside Canadian Red Cross truck, ca. …

… Transfusion Medicine Guidelines (ICTMG) recently convened a panel to provide guidance for fetal neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT). Findings from a systematic review have been recently published in the … disorder in fetuses and newborns. In FNAIT, the mother’s antibodies cross the placenta and bind to the baby’s …

… Kidney Paired Donation program – launched in 2009 –  is a perfect example of how interprovincial health systems work … anonymous donors (willing, living donors without a specific intended recipient) who make domino kidney … that might be able to exchange kidneys. From there, it’s a matter of finding a suitable exchange and creating …

… Update: Critical need for donors continues as Canada’s supply of universal blood type dips beneath two days blood … to the blood and blood products they need.       Image   A noticeable increase in blood donations across the country … the urgency for more donations. At any given time, between a five and eight day supply of blood and blood products are …

… innovations in transfusion medicine over the years. A series of posts over the next few weeks feature remarkable …   Modern blood banking and transfusion medicine owe a great deal to Canadian wartime pioneers in battlefield … medicine. For example, Dr. Lawrence Bruce Robertson’s insistence on whole blood for treatment of battlefield …

… Scholar Research or Clinical Interests Dr. Bigham is a medical officer at Canadian Blood Services who specializes … He is also involved in medical education, serving as a clinical professor in the School of Population and Public … Forces, receiving his medical degree in 1982 from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He later completed a …