Transfusion Safety: Tackling the Real Risks

Speaker Presentations

Session 1: Safe Product, unsafe practice

• Dr Erica Wood: Transfusion Confusion
• Dr Mark Polizotto: Bugs versus Blunders
• Dr Louise Phillips: Beyond Blunders

Session 2: Safety and quality issues for transfusion

• Ms Bernie Harrison: Prescribing Behaviour
• Dr Shelly Jeffcott: Human Factors in Transfusion
• Prof James Isbister: Putting the Patient First

Session 3: State and hospital initiatives to improve transfusion safety

• Ms Karen Botting: Blood Matters
• Dr Kathryn Robinson: 'BloodSafe'
• Ms Linley Bielby: Transfusion Nurses
• Dr Merrole Cole-Sinclair: Transfusion Committees