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TraQ Program (BC Provincial Blood Coordinating Office)

• TraQ program 
  • Interactive case studies
  • Animations & videos
  • Transfusion news from around the world
  • Nursing resources
  • TraQ technical manuals (Fabulous resources, inc. competency questions with answers)

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (all cases)

• One Dose, Fifty Pills (Lawrence Smith, MD)
• No Blood, Please (Bryan A. Liang, MD, PhD, JD)
• Transfusion "Slip" (Harold S. Kaplan, MD)
• Right Patient, Wrong Sample (Michael Astion, MD, PhD )
• Check the Wristband (Marilynn M. Rosenthal, PhD)

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine (Pathologic Quiz Cases)

• A 6-year-old girl with thrombocytopenia (July 2003)
• A 2-year-old boy with a hereditary bleeding disorder (June 2003)

AUSTRALIA

• BloodSafe e-learning (CE modules)

California Blood Bank Society

• CBBS e-Network Forum  (Q & A on a multitude of common problems - One of the best places to find high quality information)

Canadian Blood Services

• transfusionmedicine.ca (great education site)

Centers for Disease Control

• Viral hepatitis serology training (6 animated tutorials with audio & 8 case studies)

Center for International Health

• Indian Immunohematology Initiative (many case studies & lectures)

New York Blood Center

• Practical Problems in Transfusion Medicine (self-guided CE)

University of Pittsburgh (more then 360 case studies)

• Index of all cases (by symptoms) (by diagnosis)

Of particular interest to blood bankers
Case 62 (tx rx) Case 101 (pos xm) Case 108 (tx rx) Case 164 (tx rx) Case 274 (tx rx)	Case 280 (IgA deficiency) Case 293 (tx rx) Case305 (tx rx) Case 325 (von Willebrand's) Case 332 (babesiosis)

Puget Sound Blood Center 

• Introduction to Hematology

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

• Bloody Easy online programs

Yale University

• Case studies (multiple disciplines)

Modules

University of Alberta

• TM modules (homepage)
  • Genetics
  • Immunology
  • ABO
  • Rh
  • Pretransfusion testing

OTHER CE offerings

Baxter

• Introduction and index 
• Overview of Apheresis
• Overview of Leukoreduction 
• Understanding Platelets and Platelet Therapy

Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics

• Ortho W.I.R.E.