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Chemistry International -- Newsmagazine for IUPAC
From the journal Chemistry International -- Newsmagazine for IUPAC Volume 24 Issue 6

IUPAC Projects

Properties and Units for Transfusion Medicine and Immunohaematology

Unambiguous expression of properties will assist in fulfilling safety and legal requirements in the handling of blood products intended for transfusion and organs intended for transplantation. The C-NPU (Committee on Nomenclature, Properties and Units)–maintained as a joint activity of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC) and IUPAC–has as its main task to promote and maintain scientifically and conceptually sound ways of expressing the outcome of measurements and other examinations in laboratory medicine. The NPU coding scheme and vocabulary, based on the international system of units, concepts theory, and high-level international standards, is the main outcome and should be the cornerstone for expressing measurements within international communication standards. Thus, the task in this project is to work out properties and units for transfusion medicine and tissue typing based on the former CNPU concepts and syntactic rules.

It is a characteristic of the fields of transfusion medicine and tissue typing that the properties examined may involve both nominal, ordinal, differential, and rational scales. Thus, the project will establish the metrological and logical basis for expressing such properties. In addition, the necessary international coding scheme identifiers and code values will have to be chosen as required by interlaboratory transmission between databases. In this respect, active collaboration and/or endorsement by the International Society of Blood Transfusion will be sought.

For more information, contact the Task Group Chairman Urban Forsum <urban.forsum@ihm.liu.se>.

www.iupac.org/projects/2001/2001-059-1-700.html

Published Online: 2009-09-01
Published in Print: 2002-11

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https://doi.org/10.1515/ci.2002.24.6.21b

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Contents
  2. What Lies Ahead for the Union
  3. PEDECIBA–Programa de DEsarrollo de CIencias BAsicas
  4. Scientific and Technical Information
  5. Macromolecular Nomenclature and Terminolo
  6. Aligning the Revised Red and Blue Books and Preparing for IUPAC Preferred Names
  7. The Address is www.iupac.org
  8. Dana Knox Receives the Franzosini Award
  9. New SIT Software Makes Speciation Calculations Easier
  10. Recommendations for NMR Measurements of High pK Values and Equilibrium Constants in Strongly Basic Solutions
  11. Performance Evaluation Criteria for Preparation and Measurement of Macroand Microfabricated Ion-Selective Electrodes
  12. New Solubility Data Projects
  13. Concepts and Structure for Requests in Clinical Laboratories
  14. Properties and Units for Transfusion Medicine and Immunohaematology
  15. Global Use of the C-NPU Concept System for Properties in Toxicology
  16. Definitions Relating to Stereochemically Asymmetric Polymerizations (IUPAC Recommendations 2001)
  17. Potentiometric Selectivity Coefficients of Ion-Selective Electrodes
  18. Provisional Recommendations
  19. The Science of Sweeteners
  20. Ionic Poylmerization
  21. Green Chemistry in Africa
  22. Vermeer's Camera: Uncovering the Truth Behind the Masterpieces
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  32. 22nd Discussion Conference of P.M.M. on Spectroscopy of Partially Ordered Macromolecular Systems 21–24 July 2003, Prague, Czech Republic
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