The ANZTCT has set-up this page to provide regular updates, useful information, and resources on the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) for BMT Specialists, BMT Nurses, their patients, and carers across Australia and New Zealand.
Read the updated ANZTCT COVID-19 Vaccination Position Statement, 2nd February 2021 (Version 2)
Previous ANZTCT Position Statements
- ANZTCT COVID-19 Vaccination Position Statement, 20th January 2021 (Version 1)
- ANZTCT Consensus COVID-19 Position Statement, 15th April 2020
COVID-19 Vaccine Resources
- EHA Statement on COVID-19 Vaccines
- The Agency for Clinical Innovation, Blood and Marrow Transplant and Celluar Therapy Network (BMT+CT) have developed a COVID-19 information page for BMT & Haematology patients, carers and donors. Click to access What Haematology/(BMT) patients and carers need to know (7th May 2020).
- For further BMT patient information and resources click here.
Clinician Resources
- Australian Government Department of Health
- Aotearoa New Zealand Ministry of Health
- National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce
- ASH
- ATSCT COVID-19 Resource Community
- EBMT COVID-19 Updates
- LLS Canada COVID-19 Resource Centre
- ABMDR COVID-19 Response
- BSH COVID-19 Updates
- ANZSBT COVID-19 resources
- Cancer Australia Information about cancer and COVID-19 – Treatment
- ARC Lifeblood COVID-19 and safety and sufficiency of the blood supply
- NBA Blood Management during COVID-19
- NZ BLOOD COVID-19 Updates
- CNSA COVID-19 publications and resources
- RACP COVID-19 Updates and Resources
- RCPA COVID-19 Updates
- COSA COVID-19 Updates
- ASCO COVID-19 Resources
- ESMO COVID-19 and Cancer
- NHMRC COVID-19 impacts
Webinars
- European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) in conjunction with the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (ASTCT) will be hosting webinars on strategies to prevent and manage COVID-19. To register for upcoming EBMT webinars and to view past webinars please click https://www.ebmt.org/covid-19-webinars
- Australian Government Department of Health are hosting a series of webinars for healthcare practitioners on the department’s response and management of COVID-19. Click here to view the schedule for upcoming webinars and to view past webinars
- International Academy for Clinical Hematology (IACH) have hosted a series of webinars with haematologists in Europe who have shared their experience in managing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. These are available at http://clinical-hematology.org/video-library/
Podcasts
- The Hematologist Podcast from the American Society of Hematology
- The Oncology Podcast from Oncology News Australia
Journals, Publishers & Research Institutions
- Szer J, Wesidorf D, Querol S, et al. The impact of COVID-19 on the provision of donor hematopoietic stem cell products worldwide: collateral damage, Springer Nature 2020.
- Weinkove R, McQuilten Z, Adler J, et al. Managing haematology and oncology patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: interim consensus guidance, Med J Aust 2020.
- Willan J, King AJ, Hayes S, et al. Care of haematology patients in a COVID‐19 epidemic, British Journal of Haematology 2020
- Centre for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 Databases and Journals
- COVID-19 Repository COVID-19 research and guidelines across the globe
- ELSEVIER Novel Coronavirus Information Center
- JAMA Network COVID-19 Collection
- The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Centre
- The Liverpool Drug Interaction Group COVID-19 Drug Interactions
- NCBI Insights Genome Sequences from COVID-19
- NCIB LitCOVID
- NIH COVID-19
- Read by QxMD COVID-19 Collection
- Springer Nature SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 resource centre
- Taylor & Francis COVID-19: Novel Coronavirus Content and Research Archive
- WMDA Share COVID-19 Resource
ANZTCT Past Updates