The pandemic, high ICU admissions, and disruptions to elective surgery challenge blood services and blood supply. Blood 2020 is postponed, and ISBT 2021 is cancelled.
A sponsored webinar, ‘Ensuring Safe Blood Practices’, attracts 172 members. Members also join a Lifeblood-sponsored two-day web-based conference, ‘Transfusion United 2020’, which includes an ANZSBT symposium, ‘Transfusion Research from Bench to Bedside’.
Revised Guidelines for Transfusion & Immunohaematology Laboratory Practice are released.
