Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIg) - changes to supply and governance

Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) presentation

The PowerPoint presentation: Intravenous immunoglobulin - changes to supply and governance, has been produced by Blood Matters and Australian Red Cross Lifeblood nurses.

The presentation covers the:

• governance structure
• criteria for use
• use of BloodSTAR
• current supply arrangements
• safe administration practice for IVIg.

This is a learning tool for health services. Health services can edit it to include information specific to individual organisations.

IVIg clinical practice guidance template

The Blood Matters program has also produced the IVIg clinical practice guidance template. Health services can use this to create their own in-house IVIg protocols. It includes information about the safe administration practice of IVIg, taken from current product information inserts.