Global evolution of transfusion practices and influence.
Dr Peter Flanagan invites Professor James Isbister to reflect on future opportunities & challenges for transfusion. https://vimeo.com/1022037031?share=copy#t=0
International Foundation for Patient Blood Management (IFPBM), a registered not-for-profit Swiss Foundation is formed. The Foundation has a Board of…
National Blood Authority & Western Australian Department of Health, organise Australia’s 1st national Patient Blood Management conference in Perth.
First module of NBA Patient Blood Management guidelines on Critical Bleeding/Massive Transfusion published with subsequent development of 5 further modules…
Next Generation Sequencing extends potential role & capability of blood group genotyping systems. Commercial automated genotyping platforms suitable for transfusion…
The term ‘Patient Blood Management’ 1st appears in PubMed listed journal, Anesthesiology. Magnetised erythrocyte technique reported for automated grouping & antibody screening. First National Haemovigilance report published by NBA….
FDA provides draft, general guidance on implementation of electronic crossmatching. NZBS implement HBV DNA testing of blood donations (followed by…
Australian Commission on Safety & Quality in Health implements ‘Blood Standard 7 on Blood & Blood Products’ which is applied in accreditation of healthcare institutions.
The term ‘Patient Blood Management’ introduced & 1st appears in ‘Updates in Blood Conservation and Transfusion Alternatives’. Automated systems for high throughput molecular blood group testing…
Top ten list of randomised controlled trials in transfusion medicine, authored by Mo Blajchman, is published in Vox Sanguinis.
1st results published from French Haemovigilance Surveillance & Alert system introduced into law in 1993. 1st publication demonstrating transfusion transmission of West…
National Blood Agreement signed by all Australian Health Ministers to proceed with legislation for & activities of the Australian National Blood Authority….
NHMRC Alternatives to Homologous Transfusion (This report was never officially released as the Stephen Review was about to be delivered: this changes the direction…
Australian federal government taskforce established to review blood & plasma product sector. Throughout 1990’s, allogeneic transfusion established as independent risk factor for adverse clinical outcomes. 1st RCT on restrictive versus liberal…
United Kingdom announces decision to implement universal pre-storage leucodepletion & cease fractionation of domestic plasma based on risk of transfusion…
Justice Krever releases landmark report on Canada’s blood & public health system failures in managing HIV & HCV transfusion transmission…
Establishment of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service to ensure national standards in testing & quality of fresh blood and…
ANZSBT “Topics in Transfusion Medicine” summarises the evidence for using plasma vs serum in red cell antibody screening (vol 2,…
FDA approves electronic crossmatching on individual institution basis after Transfusion publishes Judd’s first use in 1992.
National Association for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery founded in US dedicated to improving care for Jehovah’s Witness patients.
1st rFVIII approved by the US FDA. Glass microbeads used as alternative to Sephadex for CAT. Early 90s sees production of monoclonal antibodies…
CSL privatised & listed on ASX. Transfusion Medicine 1st published with focus on HIV crisis in developing world & evolution of haemophilia therapy.
1st recommendations for pre-storage leukodepletion based on mechanistic hypotheses (minimise leukocyte antigen exposure, mitigation of storage lesion & potential reduction in infection risk (eg.vCJD). Lapierre et…
Hepatitis C virus identified & characterised. CSL releases 80 degree Centigrade 72 hour heat-treated FVIII concentrates, which together with donor selection & other…
March MJA publishes controversial article (Isbister, J.P.) titled ‘The paradigm shift in blood transfusion’. This article is referred to as the origin of the field of Patient Blood…
Transfusion Medicine Reviews 1st published. M.A. Blajchman writes 1st editorial: Transfusion Medicine-The Coming of Age of a New Specialty. Western Blot emerges as confirmatory HIV antigen test. Monoclonal anti-Lea & Leb produced (pictured).
Pre-transfusion testing innovations in late 1970-early 1980s reduce cross-matching time. New & modified techniques abbreviate crossmatch with increased relianceon pre-transfusion antibody screening. ANZSBT keeps pace &…
February Australian AIDS Taskforce reports on transmission of AIDS & blood donors. May MJA publishes strategies to avoid/minimise homologous blood transfusion during AIDS crisis. ELISA based high-throughput HIV antibody test…
1st reported Australian transfusion transmission of AIDS. NEJM publishes CDC record of 1st 18 transfusion-associated AIDS cases. Recognition of widespread HIV infection in Australian haemophilia…
1st cases of what would later be identified as AIDS reported in US. Timeline of The HIV and AIDS Epidemic | HIV.gov Imbach 1st reports high dose IVIG therapy for autoimmune disease (ITP…
Lalezari & Jiang describe manual polybrene test. Adopted into abbreviated crossmatching & screening procedures by some labs. Voak reports monoclonal…
AABB deletes room temperature antibody test from Standards. Increased emphasis on antibody screening requires screening cells to be un-pooled &…
Ott & Cooley report successful transfusion free-cardiovascular surgery in 542 Jehovah’s Witness patients. Verheugt et al (Central Laboratories of Netherlands Red Cross) report 1st effective diagnostic granulocyte antibody…
1st successful Australian allogeneic bone marrow transplant at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney.
Micropore blood giving set incorporates 40 micron filter for prevention of pulmonary microembolism in massive transfusion.
Haemapheresis technology adopted in Australia for plasma collection & therapy. 1st cases of antibody mediated autoimmune disease (Goodpasture’s Syndrome) treated with plasma exchange. Subsequently wider use of therapeutic plasma exchange as more…
Bob Walsh appointed Professor & Dean, University of NSW Faculty of Medicine, 1973-1982. Opelz & Terasaki demonstrate association between blood transfusion & increased graft survival in kidney transplant recipients.
The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy by Titmus published & becomes a landmark textbook for the social sciences. The 1970’s sees an increasing interest in bedside 40 micron…
Blumberg identifies & characterises Hepatitis B virus (HBV) (pictured). Micro-leukoagglutination test subsequently used for detection of clinically significant granulocyte antibodies, 1st described by van Rood…
Coppleson & Walsh describe in MJA, shark attack management & role of the blood service. Judith Pool (re)discovers cryoprecipitate refining its production and leading…
Blood grouping first automated. Increasing use of bovine albumin for incubation phase of AGT. Variability in AHG reagents’ IgG subclass…
AABB standards include the first recognition of the role for reagent red cells for antibody screening.
Platelet fractionation developed & described. TRANSFUSION journal (AABB) 1st published with major focus on Karl Landsteiner. Walsh publishes key MJA article on hospital transfusion services including role of ‘Hospital Transfusion Officers’. 1st example of…
1958 1st edition of AABB Standards for a Blood Transfusion Service. 1959 Pirofsky et al describe use of bromelin. 1958 1st edition of AABB Standards…
1955 Low describes effects of papain. 1955 Walsh publishes haemoglobin & plasma protein changes during pregnancy. 1955 Remigy publishes his discovery and use of cryoprecipitate in treatment…
1950 Cutbush & Mollison describe Duffy blood group. 1950 Walter & Murphy introduce plastic bags for blood storage. 1950 Race & Sanger’s 1st edition of Blood Groups in Man published. 1950 Diamond et al report exchange transfusion for Erythroblastosis Fetalis….
1945 Coombs et al report the detection of “incomplete” antibodies using rabbit anti-human sera. Antiglobulin test subsequently added to crossmatch in…
1941 Levine et al outline mechanism of Rh Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn. 1941 R.J. Walsh appointed Director of NSW Blood Bank & commissioned as Commanding Officer of the Serum Preparation Unit (army). Australian Red Cross “absorbed” all NSW blood donor services….
1930 Landsteiner. Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for discovery of human blood groups. 1932 Form establishes 1st blood bank in Leningrad hospital & studies clinical use of cadaver & placental blood. 1937 Cook County, USA hospital establishes…
1921 Percy Oliver establishes world’s first volunteer donor panel in London. 1926 World’s first transfusion service established by British Red Cross Society….
