Amanda works on ways to improve the safety and experience of blood donation. She’s interested in combining insights from data, interviews, surveys and clinical trials to improve our management of adverse events, like fainting.
Amanda is pursuing a PhD in Public Health at the University of Sydney, examining how research evidence is translated into clinical practice. She loves working in an applied setting and being able to see the impact of research on improving donor safety.
Key publications
Offering new and returned donors the option to give plasma: implications for donor retention and donor adverse events
2020
Vox Sang
DOI 10.1111/vox.12977
Reduced risk of vasovagal reactions in Australian whole blood donors after national implementation of applied muscle tension and water loading
2020
Transfusion
60:918-921
Trends in return behavior after an adverse event in Australian whole blood and plasma donors
2019
Transfusion
59:3157-3163
Vasovagal reactions in blood donors: risks, prevention and management
2019
Transfus Med.
29 Suppl 1:13-22.
Does using applied muscle tension at strategic time points during donation reduce phlebotomist- and donor-reported vasovagal reaction rates? A three-armed randomized controlled trial
2018
Transfusion
58:2352-2359
Amanda Thijsen articles
