Aim of the webinar: 

The aim of the webinar is to discuss the purpose and practical implications of establishing a system for emergency collection of whole blood from at walking blood bank. 

Level of education required:  

3 - Intermediate (practical application)

What knowledge is required? 

The attendees are recommended to read the attached publications (see below). 

1. Torunn Oveland Apelseth, Mirjana Arsenovic, Geir Strandenes The Norwegian blood preparedness project: A whole blood program including civilian walking blood banks for early treatment of patients with life-threatening bleeding in municipal health care services, ambulance services, and rural hospitals 
First published: 25 June 2022

2. Torunn O. Apelseth, Geir Strandenes, Einar K. Kristoffersen, Kristin G. Hagen, Hanne Braathen, Tor Hervig How do I implement a whole blood–based blood preparedness program in a small rural hospital? First published: 12 September 2020

3. John B. Holcomb, Philip C. Spinella, Torunn Oveland Apelseth, Frank K. Butler, Jeremy W. Cannon, Andrew P. Cap, Jason B. Corley, Heidi Doughty, Michael Fitzpatrick, Sara F. Goldkind Civilian walking blood bank emergency preparedness plan First published: 16 July 2021

Target audience

Civilian and military blood providers, transfusion practitioners, prehospital providers, civilian and military blood supply continuity and emergency preparedness planners

The Speakers

Josephine McCullagh

Josephine McCullagh

Principal Clinical Scientist, Blood Transfusion Clinical Lead, NHS England, London, UK

Torunn Oveland Apelseth

Torunn Oveland Apelseth

Director, The Norwegian Center for Blood Preparedness Senior Consultant, Department for Immunology

Professor Dr med Torunn Apelseth is Director of the Norwegian Center for Blood Preparedness and focuses her work on establishment of civilian-military systems for blood supply contingency planning and emergency blood preparedness. She is Senior Consultant at the Department of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine at Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, Norway, and holds a PhD (2010) on platelet transfusion from the University of Bergen. She is responsible for the training of medical students in Transfusion Medicine at the University of Bergen.

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