Transfusion Practitioners across the world ISBT | International Society of Blood Transfusion

Transfusion Practitioners have expertise in many different clinical specialties. In this series of episodes, we are talking to transfusion practitioners working in some of these specialist areas.
In this episode Transfusion Practitioners in Australia and the UK discuss their roles working in haematology and oncology.

Today's episode includes interviews with 3 nurse/nurse practitioners from Australia, Canada and UK who undertake non-medical authorization/prescription of blood or blood products.

This episode describes how Australia, Canada and the UK have implemented non-medical authorization/nurse prescribing of blood and blood products.

In this podcast we speak to Dr Naomi Rahimi-Levene who recently helped to implement a Transfusion Practitioner role in the Shamir Medical Centre in Tel Aviv Israel. For the listeners there are resources available at ISBT TP subgroup to help you build a case for a TP.

In this episode, Transfusion Practitioners continue to explain patient blood management (PBM) programs, this time with a focus on those in place in different countries.

Practitioners from Australia, Canada, the UK, and Belgium will discuss different PBM programs to give a clear idea on how they work, talking among other things about fundings, organization between departments, implementing single unit transfusions, and anemia assessment programs.

In this podcast Transfusion Practitioners explain patient blood management and look at examples of low resource strategies that could be used to reduce the need for transfusion such as reducing iatrogenic anaemia and the use of single unit transfusion.