Educational modules on the clinical use of blood

Welcome to the educational modules on the clinical use of blood, developed by an international group of expert authors in collaboration with the ISBT and WHO. These chapters follow on from the previously published modules, available through the below link: 

 

The World Health Organization developed Educational Modules on Clinical Use of Blood in partnership with the International Society of Blood Transfusion Clinical Transfusion Working Party in 2021. A collaboration that provide accessible learning materials for prescribers of blood and other staff involved in clinical transfusion to make appropriate clinical decisions on transfusion and contribute to wider efforts to optimize clinical practice of transfusion.

Through the below new chapters, you will find evidence-based, practical guidance for transfusion clinical practice on a range of topics - as well as information on where evidence is lacking and further research is required.

Sincere thanks to all contributing authors and reviewers.
We hope you find this information useful 

Erica Wood

Erica Wood

ISBT Past President, Professor, Transfusion Medicine Specialist, Transfusion Research Unit, Monash University School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Past President (2022-2024)

Erica Wood is an ISBT Board member and a member of ISBT working parties for clinical practice, haemovigilance, and transfusion-transmitted infectious diseases. From 2010-2014 she was ISBT regional director for the Western Pacific region. Erica is head of the Transfusion Research Unit in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She is a consultant haematologist at Monash Health and holds an honorary appointment at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.

Erica is president of the International Haemovigilance Network, past-president of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion, and a member of the World Health Organization Expert Advisory Panel in Transfusion Medicine. Erica has served as Chief Examiner (Haematology) for the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia and chair of the Joint Specialist Advisory Committee in Haematology.

She is a member of the Victorian Blood Matters program advisory committee and the expert group of its Serious Transfusion Incident Reporting (STIR) haemovigilance program. In 2013, Erica was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to support her practice and research in patient blood management.

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