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Guidelines & Recommendations

Blood Component Transfusion Recommendations

  • NAC Patient Blood Management Statement
  • NAC Position Paper: Utilization and Inventory Management of Group O RH(D)- Negative Red Cells
  • NAC Recommendations for Management of Dual Inventory of Solvent-Detergent Plasma and Standard Frozen Plasma
  • NAC Recommendations for the Use of Solvent-Detergent Plasma in Canada
  • NAC Statement on Perioperative Autologous and Matched Donations
  • Whole Blood, Leukocytes Reduced Recommendations

Plasma Protein and Related Products Recommendations

  • Immunoglobulin Utilization Statement
  • NAC Statement on Clinical Equivalency of Select Fractionated Plasma Protein Products
  • NAC Statement on Factor XIII Concentrate Use
  • NAC Statement on Fibrinogen Concentrate Use in Acquired Hypofibrinogenemia
  • NAC Statement on Recombinant Factor VIIa
  • Recommendations for Use of Prothrombin Complex Concentrates in Canada

Special Testing / Modification Recommendations

  • Cytomegalovirus (CMV)
  • NAC Statement on RBC Genotyping
  • Recommendations for Use of Irradiated Blood Components in Canada
  • RHD Genotyping in Prenatal Patients
  • Supplement to the NAC-CCNMT Recommendations for Use of Irradiated Blood Components in Canada

Adverse Event Recommendations

  • Canadian Transfusion Adverse Event Reporting Form
  • NAC Letter to CBS-PTBLC - Urgent Need to Transform the Canadian Hemovigilance System: A Call to Action
  • Overview of Adverse Transfusion Reaction Reporting for Hospitals in Canada - Supplement: Contacts for National ATR Report Recipients and Provincial TTISS Personnel
  • Overview of Adverse Transfusion Reaction Reporting for Hospitals in Canada: a NAC and Québec Hemovigilance System Collaborative Initiative
  • Recommendations for the Notification of Recipients of a Blood Component Recall

Infection Prevention and Control

  • Infection Prevention and Control Considerations for Return of Blood Components and Products to Inventory
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Recently updated resources

  • NAC Statement on Fibrinogen Concentrate Use in Acquired Hypofibrinogenemia
  • Recommendations for the Notification of Recipients of a Blood Component Recall
  • NAC Letter to CBS-PTBLC - Urgent Need to Transform the Canadian Hemovigilance System: A Call to Action
  • NAC Recommendations for the Use of Solvent-Detergent Plasma in Canada
  • NAC Position Paper: Utilization and Inventory Management of Group O RH(D)- Negative Red Cells

Contact

NAC Chair

Andrew Shih

NAC Project Coordinator

Kendra Stuart

info@nac.blood.ca

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