Rationale, development, and feasibility of a prehospital transfusion registry

Out of hospital blood transfusions (OHBT) happen when a person receives blood products while being taken to a hospital or being transferred between hospitals. Canadians are now receiving OHBT more often given increased availability in air ambulances and emphasis on prompt transfusion in bleeding patients. However, we do not have a way to track the effectiveness of OHBT across Canada at present. A team led by Dr. Nolan developed a set of recommended information to be collected on OHBT across Canada – with the goal of creating a national OHBT registry. In this project, Dr. Nolan and the team will study the feasibility of collecting and sharing the required information for a registry between the critical care transport organizations that provide OHBT and the hospitals that receive these critically ill bleeding patients. This work will be done through a network of critical care transport clinicians and transfusion medicine doctors from across Canada, called the Canadian Prehospital and Transport Transfusion (CANPATT) network. Together, the team hopes this is the next step in ultimately creating a national OHBT registry that can be used to assess the safety and efficacy of blood transfusions in the out-of-hospital environments.

NOLAN, Brodie

Unity Health Toronto

Blood Efficiency Accelerator Program

Ontario

$30,000