Blood Bank/Transfusion Service Organizations

American Association of Blood Banks

America's Blood Centers

American Red Cross

American Society for Apheresis

Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (FDA)

Centers for Disease Control

Food and Drug Administration

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (CDC)

National Marrow Donor Program

Blood Bank/Transfusion Service Resources

2nd edition of the Practice Guidelines for Blood Transfusion

Armed Service Blood Program
Lists of medications, immunizations, medical conditions, malarial and Chaga's risk areas for blood donor eligibility assessment (updated in Nov, 2002).

BloodBank.Com
Contains very complete and up-to-date lists of information and resources concerning blood banking and Transfusion Medicine.

Baxter Continuing Education Program
Has a number of CE approved on-line tutorials concerning transfusion practices and blood derivatives.

Blood Bank Guy
(Dr. D. Joe Chaffin, Medical Director of the Blood Bank at North Colorado Medical Center) Contains questions and answers, commentaries on blood bank literature and a tutorial on transfusion reactions.

Blood Bank Handbook (UCSD Medical Center Hospitals)
An impressive, complete manual on blood banking and on the transfusion policies and procedures used in this medical center's transfusion facilities.

Bloodless Medicine Research
Useful resources on this "hot" topic in medicine including medical literature various protocols for reduction of blood use. Also contains information on blood "substitutes".

California Blood Bank Society
Excellent up-to-date reports on blood banking news items. As new section on emerging infectious agents.

College of American Pathologist
Downloadable current CAP inspection Check List

Current Issues in Transfusion Medicine (M. D. Anderson)
Resources for issues such as donor screening, pretransfusion testing, adverse reactions, special blood products and more. However some of the resources are early 1900s.

eBloodBank (Chiron)
Excellent source for current status on emergining pathogens and their detection or screening in blood donors.

Fundamental of Transfusion Medicine (University of California, Los Angeles)
A very complete manual by Dr. Lawrence D. Petz, Director, Transfusion Medicine. Copyrighted in 1996, so some of the information is now a bit dated.

Institute for Transfusion Medicine
Home of Transfusion Medicine Updates as well as an archive of previous TMUs.

Pathmax
A relatively new web site with a variety of resources for the pathologist. Their Transfusion Medicine page contains links from everything from tutorials to practice parameters.

Pat Letendre's Home Page (University of Alberta)
A compilation of extensive Blood Bank/Transfusion Medicine resource links.

Puget Sound Blood Center
Very well done site with a valuable educational section containing information on blood component therapy, a blood component therapy reference manual and a section on transfusion nursing education.

School for Education on Emerging Diseases (Ortho)
Home of new, on-line, educational broadcasts on emerging infectious agents, their distribution, the risks and solutions to the problem.

UK Transfusion and Tissue Transplantation Guidelines
A complete handbooks and guidelines on current practices in the United Kingdoms.

University of Michigan Hospitals' Blood Transfusion Policies
and Standard Practices
The title says it all. Complied by Suzanne H. Butch, Dr. Harold A. Oberman, and Dr.Robertson D. Davenport

WebPath Blood Bank Tutorials (Florida State University College of Medicine)
On-line tutorials on blood donation, testing, crossmatching and processing, transfusion reactions, and apheresis.