Clinical Guidelines and Forms to Download

Quick link to National Indication Codes for Transfusion

Quick links to British Committee for Standards in Haematology guidelines:

• Guidelines for Red cell transfusions
• Guidelines on the use of Fresh frozen plasma, cryoprecipitate and cryosupernatant

• Guidelines for Platelet transfusions
• Transfusion guidelines for neonates and older children

Quick links to RD&E guidelines

• Transfusion Policy
• Guidelines for the use of Special blood components
• Special requirements summary table

• Management of massive haemorrhage guidelines
• Major Haemorrhage flow chart
• Major Obstetric Haemorrhage flow chart
• Agreed blood ordering schedule for surgery
• Management of Antenatal Women who are Rh D negative or have Atypical Red Cell Antibodies
• Clinical management of Adult transfusion reactions .
• Major Incident Action Card – Consultant Haematologist (2015)
• HTT 066 Risks of transfusion (2)

National Health Service Blood and Transplant Guidelines

• Granulocyte Transfusions

Patient information leaflets

The NHSBT provide information about receiving transfusion for patients, these can be downloaded from their website

Forms

As soon as a patient is identified as requiring SPECIAL BLOOD COMPONENTS (e.g. irradiated, CMV negative, HEV negative, washed, HLA matched, allogeneic bone marrow transplant)  the Blood Transfusion laboratory must be informed. A notification letter should be raised on EPIC in the ward navigator page (click here to access more information on how to raise a special requirements notification on EPIC), this will link the requirement automatically to subsequent blood component orders and send the notification through to the Hospital Transfusion Team. If your blood component order is urgent you can add the special requirement to the component order but you will need to phone the laboratory on ext 2465/2467 to inform them of the requirement. If you do not have access to EPIC you can download and send a notification letter to the Blood Transfusion department or email to rde-tr.HTT@nhs.net.

Blood component/product collection form – Please note that all blood components and products should be collected using the BloodTrack pick-up slips (see the electronic blood tracking page). The blood component/product form in the link below should only be used to collect blood components/products if the electronic blood tracking system is not functioning

Blood component/product collection form

Routine Antenatal Anti-D Ig Prophylaxis

Click here to access the RAADP request form