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PBBuk offers comprehensive advice on blood products and their administration. Most of this information is available within the website but we are also able to give advice in individual cases if needed.
In giving individual advice, it helps us in our ability to assist your decisions if a presumptive diagnosis is known. If this is not known, please provide as many baseline test results as possible to help us to help you. These include (but are not confined to):
Other details, such as weight of patient and co-existing conditions/medications are also important.
Jenny Walton, Veterinary Supervisor for PBBuk has eight years experience working as an ECC clinician and is happy to offer general guidance on transfusion medicine. If you require advice please call the Pet Blood Bank office on 01509 232 222 and we will arrange for our vet to call you back as soon as possible. Please provide us with an out of normal hours contact number, mobile number and an email contact for the vet in charge in case we have to contact you outwith normal working hours.
For advice on more complex cases we have UK advisors, Amanda Boag MA VETMB DipACVIM DipACVECC FHEA MRCVS and Dr Ava Firth BS DVM MVS MACVSc DACVECC MRCVS as well as US advisor Dr Anne Hale. We also have contacts within the human blood service. Contact for this advanced service is ideally by email to enable questions to be directed to the most appropriate person. Please include ADVICE QUERY in the subject box.
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Should you require specific prompt case help beyond these services, most referral and Out of Hours centres in the UK store or have access to our blood products. In some cases, referral to such centres and seeking advice from veterinarians further qualified in their field may be an appropriate course of action.
We will always endeavour to provide the most practical advice for the situation as we are very aware that transfusion cases can be critical and demanding to deal with.
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