1. British Columbia Update
April 2015
Darlene Mueller
BC TMAG

2. Transfusion Medicine Education
Transfusion Medicine for Physicians is a free e-course developed by transfusion medicine subject experts in BC to promote standardized safe transfusion medicine practice among BC physicians and to raise awareness of current best practices
1-hour online course featuring 6 interactive case studies (10 min each)
Online registration opens April 1st, 2015
CME credit

3. Transfusion Medicine Education

4. Surgical Patient Registry Linkage (2008/09 – 2013/14)
Provincial
Specialty
Surgeon
Forecast
Health Authority
Procedure
Seasonality

5. Facts about Surgical Blood Transfusions 2008/09 – 2013/14
4.8% of surgeries used RBC (87,504 surgeries)
33% of provincial RBC used in surgeries (288,634 units)

6. Surgical Blood Used 2013/14

7. Forecasting* RBCs in Surgery by Age Group
*Projection based on the age and gender specific transfusion/donor rates in 2012 and assumes the rates are constant along the years.

8. Transfusion Rates are Summarized:
By speciality
By procedure
By health authority
By surgeon’s case volume
By surgeon