Resources

For healthcare providers

Materials for school nurses, emergency departments, dentists and clinics caring for someone with a bleeding disorder. Free, and we will post you a printed set if you would rather have one.

What we can send you

If a patient or a student of yours has a bleeding disorder, you may be the only person in your building who has treated one. This page is for you: what to download now, and how to ask us for printed copies.

Lone Star is not a treatment center and we do not provide medical care. For anything about a particular patient — a dose, a product, a bleed in front of you right now — their hemophilia treatment center is the call to make, and they take those calls around the clock. Every center in Texas is listed here.

Emergency department recommendations MASAC #201. What an emergency department needs to know: treat first, factor before imaging, and why a head injury is different. PDF · NBDF ↓ Recomendaciones para urgencias The same MASAC #201 recommendations in Spanish, for departments serving Spanish-speaking families. PDF · EN ESPAÑOL ↓ The full MASAC document The complete standard behind the two above, for anyone writing a protocol rather than reading one at the bedside. PDF · NBDF ↓ School nurse packet For a nurse who has a student with a bleeding disorder: what to expect, what to keep on hand, and who to call. ASK US → Dental care What a dental practice needs to plan for before a cleaning, an extraction or a block. ASK US → Obstetrics and gynecology Carriers, heavy menstrual bleeding, and planning a delivery. The part of this that is most often missed. ASK US →

For healthcare providers

Request materials

Tell us who you are and what you need. A person reads every one of these — you will not be added to a mailing list, and we do not pass anything on.

Where to next

If you need something that is not here

Emergency care What we tell families to bring to an emergency department, so you know what they have been told. Read the page → Treatment centers Every HTC in Texas, with phone numbers. The right call for anything about a particular patient. Find the nearest → Talk to a person 713.686.6100, or write to us. If the form does not fit what you need, this always works. Contact us →