Chairperson and committee
Chairperson: Mary Townsend (USA)
Secretary: Gopal Patidar (India)
Chair Donor subcommittee: Shruthi Narayan (UK)
Chair Recipient subcommittee: Gopal Patidar (India)
Chair HV Tools and Resources subcommittee: Shruthi Narayan (UK)
Membership
In the past year, the Working Party has welcomed 16 new members, adding to our diverse community of 166 individuals representing 47 countries.
Meetings and Teleconferences
Business meeting at ISBT Milan
- Education Session:
- Traceability Project - Paul Ashford
- Introduction to AI in HV - Dr. Hong Yang (USA)
- Brief updates about:
- Imputability Project
- Haemovigilance Video
- Report from the subgroup for Management of HV Tools and Resources
- AABB/ISBT working group on Delayed Hemolytic Transfusion Reactions
- Updates on the Kahoot educational platform
IHN Symposium at Athens, Greece; 11-12th April 2024
- Leadership of the working party (Mary, Gopal & Shruthi) participated and presented in the Symposium.
- Mary Townsend: Implementing the Individual Risk Assessment Blood Donor Deferral Paradigm in the US.
- Gopal Patidar: ISBT Imputability Project
- Shruthi Narayan: Six years of Human Factors – Insights from SHOT UK.
WP projects related meetings:
- Organizational meeting for Imputability subgroup
- Organizational meeting for Tools and Resources subgroup
- Organisational meeting for Traceability project
- Organisational meeting for AI in Haemovigilance Project
- Meeting with the Paediatric subgroup of the Clinical Transfusion Working party for project on Paediatric transfusion associated circulatory overload (TACO).
Activities during the period
Projects Updates:
- Traceability Project: This is a collaborative project with IHN and SHOT. Survey distributed among the WP members and other routes. Responses received, and analysis is ongoing. Three abstracts from the project results were submitted for ISBT Milan conference. One abstract selected for Oral presentation while two selected for poster presented.
- AI in Haemovigilance Project: This is another collaborative project with IHN and SHOT. Survey being finalised, aiming for distribution in end April-May 2025.
- Imputability Project: Monthly meetings are going on, 9 meetings so far, progress made with initial draft of the scoring matrix prepared, once the scoring matrix is agreed, the group plan to validate it using anonymised clinical cases.
- Paediatric TACO: This is a collaboration between the haemovigilance and paediatric working parties at ISBT, IHN and SHOT. Brainstorming meetings with core group members is ongoing with identification of potential stakeholders, draft proposal and plan- 2 meetings held to date.
Publications:
- Published 3 Newsletters which can all be accessed at this link: https://www.isbtweb.org/isbt-working-parties/haemovigilance/haemovigilance-newsletters.html
- Published 5 Kahoot quizzes
- Drafting storyboard for Overview of Haemovigilance video in conjunction with IHN, AABB
Webinars:
- Avoidable transfusions- Insights from SHOT: Shruthi Narayan, Vera Rosa, Paula Bolton Maggs, Catherine Booth, Richard Gammon
Future projects that have been under discussion in 2023-2024:
- Planning of elections for key leadership positions: Chairperson, secretary, Chair of the Donor Haemovigilance Subsection and Chair of the Recipient Haemovigilance Subsection
- Completion of the Traceability Project
- Completion of AI in HV Project
- Completion of the Imputability project
- Completion of Haemovigilance video
- Exploration of the Paediatric TACO
- Exploration of under transfusion as an adverse transfusion event (with paediatric subgroup of Clinical Transfusion WP)
- Validation Respiratory complications (TRALI)
- Production of 3+ WP Newsletters
- Continuing collaborative projects with IHN – webinars, surveys (on traceability and donor cardiac and neurovascular complications) being planned
