The Norwegian Centre for Blood Preparedness - Nokblod

Early balanced blood transfusion is recommended for treatment of patients with life-threatening bleeding. The Norwegian Centre for Blood Preparedness (Nokblod) coordinates the national blood preparedness in Norway. Nokblod is located in Helse Bergen.

A photo of an accident scene with several emergency services and people present

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Our mission:

Ensure adequate and sustainable supply of blood and blood products in times of crisis and war.
Establish a system that ensures civilian-military coordination of blood supply.
Strengthen preparedness for major civil disasters and geographically isolated areas.

Nokblod has an civilian-miltary coordination function for blood preparedness in times of peace, crisis and war. Our work tasks include education and training, consultancy, innovation, research and development:

Education and training in blood preparedness systems including the use of emergency blood products like whole blood, cold stored platelets and dried plasma
Establish systems for emergency collection and transfusion of whole blood (Walking Blood Banks and emergency blood donor pools)
Coordinatinon of national and international requests for blood
Blood donor recruitment

Walking blood bank in Alta

Contact information

For requests to the Norwegian Centre for Blood Preparedness:

nokblod@helse-bergen.no

Department of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital

Torunn Oveland Apelseth

Director of the Norwegian Centre for Blood Preparedness

torunn.oveland.apelseth@helse-bergen.no

Senior Consultant at the Department of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital
Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bergen