How Tranexamic acid works (via Youtube) - The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine developed this 3-minute animation to understand fibrinolysis and how tranexamic acid works to inhibit the enzymatic break down of blood clots.
Choosing wisely - a series of short informative animations from Canada about when to transfuse, or more importantly, when NOT to transfuse various blood components
The Strange Case of Penny Allison video (starring Hugh Laurie and Imelda Staunton), available in full (19 min) from Susan Mercer (NZBS / Canterbury DHB Transfusion Nurse Specialist) via Blood Bank) or on Youtube. A great teaching aid and entertaining too!
Our medical systems are broken. Doctors are capable of extraordinary (and expensive) treatments, but they are losing their core focus: actually treating people. Doctor and writer Atul Gawande, surgeon by day and public health journalist by night, suggests we take a step back and look at new ways to do medicine.
The New Zealand Broadcasting School School at Ara Institute of Canterburyhas launched a documentary that features a journalist who gives blood and shows what happens to that blood once it leaves the body.
