TRANSFUSION MEDICINE 
EDUCATION RESOURCES

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Case Studies 

TraQ Program (BC Provincial Blood Coordinating Office)

• TraQ program 
  • Interactive case studies
  • Nursing resources
  • Technical Resource Manual and Competency Companion

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)

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

Yale University

• Case studies (multiple disciplines)

Exercises and Quizzes

University of Alberta

• Questions & cases (MLSCI 370 - scroll to bottom of page)
• ABO discrepancies
• Rh inheritance

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.

TraQ 

• Continuing Education database