ONTraC

Arya S, Howell A, Vernich L, Lin Y, Pavenski K, Freedman J. Re-evaluating treatment thresholds in patient blood management: Female patients experience more perioperative anaemia and higher transfusion rates in major elective surgery. Vox Sang. 2024.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/vox.13717

Pavenski, Katerina MD*,†,‡; Howell, Alanna RN*,§; Mazer, C. David MD∥,¶,#; Hare, Gregory M. T. MD, PhD‡,∥,¶,#; Freedman, John MD*,§,∥. ONTraC: A 20-Year History of a Successfully Coordinated Provincewide Patient Blood Management Program: Lessons Learned and Goals Achieved. Anesthesia & Analgesia: September 2022 - Volume 135 - Issue 3 - p 448-458
https://journals.lww.com/anesthesia-analgesia/Fulltext/2022/09000/ONTraC__A_20_Year_History_of_a_Successfully.3.aspx?context=FeaturedArticles&collectionId=4

Freedman, J. (2020) Patient Blood Management ORBCoN January Newsletter

Freedman, J. (2016) Transfusion Medicine: Time for a change: Patient Blood Management and the Ontario ONTraC Program Perioperative and Critical Intensive  Care Nursing

Freedman, J., Luke, K., Escobar, M., Vernich, L., & Chiavetta, J.A. (2008, February). Experience of a network of Transfusion Coordinators for blood conservation (Ontario Transfusion Coordinators [ONTraC]). Transfusion, 48, 237-250.

Luke, K. & Freedman, J. (2007, Spring). Ontario Transfusion Coordinators (ONTraC), A Provincial Blood Conservation Program. SABM Newsletter 3(1), 2-3.

Freedman, J. (2005). Theme issue on Ontario initiatives in blood conservation and blood management (editorial). Transfusion and Apheresis Science, 33, 315-316.

Freedman, J., Luke, K., Monga, N., Lincoln, S., Koen, R., Escobar, M., & Chiavetta, J. (2005). A provincial program of blood conservation: The Ontario transfusion coordinators (ONTraC). Transfusion and Apheresis Science, 33, 343-349.

Other ONTraC publications

Jadunandan S, Tano R, Vicus D, Callum J, Lin Y. The incidence of perioperative anemia and iron deficiency in patients undergoing gyne-oncology surgery. Can Oncol Nurs J. 2022 Feb 1;32(1):75-80. doi: 10.5737/236880763217580. PMID: 35280061; PMCID: PMC8849165.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35280061/

Ralley, F. E., Berta, D., Binns, V., Howard, J., Naudie, D. D. R. (2010). One Intraoperative Dose of Tranexamic Acid for Patients having Primary Hip or Knee Arthroplasty. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. Online first: January 2010. (Erratum: Volume 468, Issue 5 / May 2010 http://www.springerlink.com/content/l93203n42lwg14t0/fulltext.pdf )

Hall, J. (2008, May 5). Fewer transfusions lowers cost, helps patients. The Toronto Star.http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/421446

Recent  PBM related publications of interest

Clarissa P. Skorupski, Matthew C. Cheung, Yulia Lin. Preoperative anemia in major elective surgery
CMAJ April 2023, 195 (15) E551  https://www.cmaj.ca/content/195/15/E551

Goobie, Susan M. MD, FRCPC. Patient Blood Management Is a New Standard of Care to Optimize Blood Health. Anesthesia & Analgesia: September 2022 - Volume 135 - Issue 3 - p 443-446
https://journals.lww.com/anesthesia-analgesia/Fulltext/2022/09000/Patient_Blood_Management_Is_a_New_Standard_of_Care.1.aspx

Shander A, Hardy JF, Ozawa S, Farmer SL, Hofmann A, Frank SM, Kor DJ, Faraoni D, Freedman J; Collaborators. A Global Definition of Patient Blood Management. Anesth Analg. 2022 Feb 10. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000005873. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35147598.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35147598/

Pierre Tibi, R. Scott McClure, Jiapeng Huang, Robert A. Baker, David Fitzgerald, C. David Mazer, Marc Stone, Danny Chu, Alfred H. Stammers, Tim Dickinson, Linda Shore-Lesserson, Victor Ferraris, Scott Firestone, Kalie Kissoon, Susan Moffatt-Bruce

Pasricha S., Tye-Din J., Muckenthaler M.U., Swinkels, D.W.
Iron Deficiency
The Lancet 2020 Published Online https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32594-0