In Focus

  • Educational resources in information technology
  • Importance of data quality in IT systems
  • Standardized electronic messaging to improve transfusion records and traceability
  • Traceability guidelines
  • Updating the guidelines for RFID in transfusion medicine
  • Cybersecurity
  • Leveraging technology to strengthen the connection between blood banks and blood donors
  • Managing staff shortages in transfusion services during the COVID-19 pandemic in LMIC
  • Training turbulence: When new software meets accountability

Academy

  • 5th Annual Conference of BBMT-Pakistan
  • 3-Day professional development and intensive training course on immunohaematology
  • Educational course in Transfusion Medicine in Cairo, Egypt
  • Pre-congress of WAA workshop in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

From Central Office

  • From the President
  • Member spotlight: Zikra Syed
  • New Working Party: Big Data
  • ISBT Education
  • Vox Sanguinis highlights
  • Meet the new members of the Young Professionals Council
  • ISBT Milan 2025
  • Welcome to our new members
  • Transfusion Practitioners across the world Podcast
  • Talking Transfusion Podcast

From the Community

Dive into our Community page to find out what the global transfusion community have been focused through a collection of stories and photos.

Regional

  • Construction and clinical application of platelet gene bank in Zhejiang, China
  • The evolving role of registered nurses in blood collection service: extending primary and community care in Hong Kong
  • Artificial intelligence in Transfusion Medicine: initiatives in india
  • Blood Transfusion Services in Nepal
  • Implementing a check sample (second sample) policy in Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Mall to action – 1 Day, 1 Nation, 5000 Units of Blood - A lifesaving initiative
  • Obstacles are opportunities in disguise – the therapeutic plasma exchange experience
  • JACIE accreditation of a mobile collection and central processing facility – the South African experience
  • A holistic, whole pathway approach to resuscitation in trauma haemorrhage

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