Kits from Baxter

Baxter BioScience
One Baxter Parkway
Deerfield, IL 60015
(866) 433-9284
www.hemophiliagalaxy.com
Free; available only from your HTC

Home Infusion Kit
Step-by-step instructions and valuable tools help you learn to self-infuse.

Self-Infusion Kit
Video and educational activities help you learn this vital skill.

Flight Gear – The Hemophilia Starter Kit
Booklets and items for the newly diagnosed family.

Venous Access Toolkit
Toolkit features tabbed sections dealing with every aspect of learning about, choosing, transitioning, and monitoring various venous access methods. Includes step-by-step guide to self-infusion and beautifully illustrated storybooks for children beginning to learn about their treatment. Written in straightforward, patient-friendly style. Components may be available for patients to take home.

School Toolkit
A collection of educational components designed to inform school personnel about hemophilia and the challenges of the student with hemophilia. The toolkit provides: specific guidelines for emergencies, PE activities and emergency contact information; a flipchart for school presentations; fact sheets with team members’ responsibilities; and worksheets to track treatment plans.

Advocacy Toolkit

Bayer HealthCare
Biological Products
400 Morgan Lane
West Haven, CT 06516-4175
www.Kogenatefs.com
Free

Toolkit explains how to write effectively to legislators; organize meetings or speak at hearings; write for newspapers or speak on radio; and convey a strong understanding of insurance issues. Strategies suggested in this brief but comprehensive, easy-to-read, colorful and insightful toolkit can help the bleeding disorders community protect itself against threats to factor coverage. Copies are limited.

Wyeth Self-Infusion Training Kit

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
500 Arcola Road
Collegeville, PA 19426
(888) 999-2349
www.hemophiliavillage.com

The Wyeth Self-Infusion Training Kit comes with synthetic hand and elbow models that allow individuals to practice infusion techniques. It is available through HTCs so that young patients with hemophilia can practice self-infusion.

The kit includes: replaceable skin and veins through which patients can practice inserting a butterfly needle and infusing clotting factor; an infusion mat; tourniquet; butterfly needles; a biohazard disposal container; and sample ReFacto R2 Kits to practice product reconstitution.