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Transfusion, Coagulation

BBTS – Werfen Webinar: The use of viscoelastic testing in goal-directed bleeding management

Webinar Objectives: 

  •  Implementation of goal-directed bleeding management:
    • Coagulation changes during bleeding
    • What is goal directed bleeding management
    • Why bring in viscoelastic testing
    • How do you introduce it
    • Is it effective – impact on blood product usage

Speakers: Kate Maynard, Dr Sam Hird, Dr Amrit Dhadda and Prof Rachel Collis

  • P.A.C.E®, California, Florida
  • English
  • 1 hour 9 minutes

Transplant

Virtual HLA Antibody Workshop - March 2024

Webinar Objectives: 

  •  Shared case studies are a learning opportunity for all. Our subject matter experts will be reviewing HLA antibody analysis on the MATCH IT! Antibody software using informative case studies and software tools.

Speakers: Erik Chatroop, MS, MLS(ASCP)CM, CHS(ACHI) and Lindsay Murdock, MS, CHT(ABHI), MLS(ASCP)CM

  • ACHI, P.A.C.E®
  • English
  • 1 hour

Transplant

Workshop: MIA FORA Case Study

Webinar Summary: 

Using informative case studies and software tools, our subject matter experts will be reviewing HLA typing. Learn more about what makes MIA FORA NGS software and assays unique.

 

Speakers: Amelia Chen

  • ACHI, California, P.A.C.E®
  • English
  • 1 hour

Transplant

Workshop: HLA Antibody Case Study

Webinar Summary: 

Our subject matter experts will be reviewing HLA antibody analysis on MATCH IT! Antibody software using informative case studies, software tools, and interactive polls.

Speakers: K. Kelly Cousins, BS, CHT (ABHI) and Jean L. Heneghan, MS, CHS(ABHI)

  • ACHI, California, Florida, P.A.C.E®
  • English
  • 1 hour

Transplant

Virtual HLA Antibody Workshop

Webinar Objectives: 

  • HLA antibody analysis on MATCH IT! Antibody v1.5.1 software using informative case studies and software tools

Speakers: Lindsay Murdock, MS, CHT(ABHI), MLS(ASCP) CM  and Erik Chatroop, MS, MLS(ASCP)CM, CHS(ACHI)

  • Florida, California, ACHI
  • English
  • 1 hour 25 minutes

Transplant

HLA Lab Management

Webinar Objectives: 

• Writing procedures and work instructions
• Quality managements
• Standards of laboratory practice
• Test performance appraisal and validation

Speaker: Dr. Marco Andreani Ph.D. ; Dr. Walter Herczyk CHS(ACHI) MT (ASCP)

  • ACHI, California, P.A.C.E®, Florida
  • English
  • 1 hour

Transplant

Clinical Application of HLA Testing

Webinar Objectives:

• Organ transplantation
• Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
• Single donor platelet transfusion for alloimmunized patients
• HLA and disease associations

Speaker: Dr. Sunil Daga MBBS MRCP PhD

  • ACHI, California, Florida, P.A.C.E®
  • English
  • 1 hour

Transfusion

Programa Internacional SCAAB 2023

Objetivos del seminario web:

  • Se discutira y revisara como resolver casos complejos e intermedios de aloanticuerpos contra células rojas y plaquetas usando serologia y metodos moleculares,
  • interferencia de tratamientos monoclonales en immunohematologia ,
  • donantes raros y poco comunes

Oradora:  Nancy Benitez;  Claribel Resto; MHSc, MT (ASCP) SBB CM   Baldomero Castro, MD   Lynsi Rahorst, MHPE, MLS(ASCP)SBB Dr.Fernando Martinez, MD, MScP; Section Head and Medical Director Anderson Cancer Center.   Dr. Hector Baptista MD   Marisela Marchan, MSTM , MT (ASCP)SBB

  • California, Florida, P.A.C.E®
  • Spanish
  • 4 hours

Transplant

Global Histocompatibility Scientific Symposium Day 3

Webinar Objectives 

  • Clinical Histocompatibility Testing for Xenotransplantation: What We Have and What We Need
  • Post-transplant Rejection Diagnostics:  a Bermuda Triangle between HLA Specialists, Nephrologists and Pathologists
  • The Next Steps in the Routine Diagnostic Implementation of Non-HLA Antibody Testing
  • The Role of HLA and Non-HLA Antibody Burden in the Outcome of Pediatric Kidney Transplantation

Speakers: Sam Ho, Maarten Naesens, Carrie Butler, Patrizia Comoli

  • ACHI, California, Florida, P.A.C.E®
  • English
  • 2 hours 37 minutes

Transplant

Global Histocompatibility Scientific Symposium Day 2

Webinar Objectives 

  • Unlocking the Power of PIRCHE-II: Exploring the Role of HLA Mismatch in Risk Stratification
  • The Use of PIRCHE in Stem Cell Transplantation
  • The HLA Eplet Registry. New Design, New Tools and Future Directions
  • Shaping the NEXT GENERATION of MATCH IT!® Software

Speakers: Bethany Dale, Meenakshi Singh, Massimo Mangolia, Alisa Rantanen

  • ACHI, California, Florida, P.A.C.E®
  • English
  • 2 hours 20 minutes

Transplant

Global Histocompatibility Scientific Symposium Day 1

Webinar Objectives

  • Best Practices for Antibody Testing
  • Canadian Genome Project
  • Virtual Crossmatch: How and Why?, US Perspective
  • Virtual Crossmatch: How and Why?, Eurotransplant
  • Virtual Crossmatch:  How and Why, Down Under

Speakers: Annette Jackson, Karen Sherwood, Paul Keown, Luis Hidalgo, Cynthia Kramer, Rhonda Holdsworth

  • P.A.C.E®, California, ACHI, Florida
  • English
  • 2 hours 33 minutes

Transplant

Identificazione di percorsi per il trapianto di pazienti sensibilizzati: un panorama in evoluzione

Obiettivi el corso:

  • Nomenclatura
  • HLAi & UKLKSS
  • Allocazione
  • Post-trapianto

Oratore: Miriam Manook, MBChB, MRCS (Ed), PhD

  • P.A.C.E®, Florida, California, ACHI
  • Italian
  • 1 hour 7 minutes

Transfusion

Soluzioni per la gestione dei dati: un valore aggiunto chiave per il tuo laboratorio trasfusionale!

Obiettivi el corso:

  • Getione delle liste di lavoro
  • Gestione dei risultati
  • Gestione dei report
  • Modulo Panel ID
  • Gestione degli archivi

Oratore: Gianni Giuffrè

  • P.A.C.E®, Florida, California
  • Italian
  • 1 hour 10 minutes

Transfusion

Trigger per la trasfusione nei neonati

Obiettivi del webinar:

  • Trasfusioni di globuli rossi nei neonati
  • Trasfusioni di piastrine nei neonati

 

Oratore: Martha Sola-Visner. MD.

  • P.A.C.E®, Florida, California
  • Italian
  • 1 hour 3 minutes

Transfusion

Test dell'emostasi e delle piastrine: risultati di laboratorio che forniscono indicazioni o un approccio cliniche

Obiettivi del webinar:
• Definire risultati di laboratorio di coagulazione normali e anormali.
• Correlare i risultati di laboratorio con segni e sintomi clinici comuni nel paziente.
• Discriminare i risultati di laboratorio delle piastrine normali e anormali.
• Applicare i risultati della coagulazione e dell'ematologia in esempi di casi di studio incentrati sulla gestione di trasfusioni di emoderivati appropriate o interventi medici.

 

Oratore: Jayanna Slayten, MS, MT(ASCP)SBBCM

  • California, Florida, P.A.C.E®
  • Italian
  • 1 hour 10 minutes

Transplant

Sessione webinar ISHI sugli effetti della variazione del peptide segnale HLA di classe I

Obiettivi el corso:

  • Effetto della variazione del segnale peptide HLA di classe I sull'espressione di HLA-E

Oratore: Miriam Manook, MBChB, MRCS (Ed), PhD

 

 

  • P.A.C.E®, Florida, California, ACHI
  • Italian
  • 1 hour 22 minutes

Transplant

HLA Antibody Detection & Identification

Webinar Objectives: 

  • Sensitivity of antibody detection assays
  • Epitope of structure of HLA gene products
  • Relationships of HLA epitopes and sequence
  •  Analysis of HLA antibodies in patients
  • Dynamics of HLA antibody production

Speaker: Tiffany Bratton, PhD

  • California, Florida, P.A.C.E®, ACHI
  • English
  • 1 hour

Transfusion

Segundo Día Anual de Educaçao da Lingua Portuguesa

Objetivos do seminário web:

  • Isohemaglutininas e a Transfusao de Plaquetas
  • validação do crossmatch plaquetario por fase sólida para manejo da Refratariedade Plaquetaria.
  • inovações para a identificaçao de anticorpos de especificidade não determinada e as técnicas moleculares na determinação de alelos de grupos.

Orador: Jayanna Slayten, MS, MT(ASCP)SBBCM

  • P.A.C.E®, Florida, California
  • Portuguese
  • 3 hours

Transplant

Principles of Histocompatibility Antigen Test Methods

Webinar Objectives: 

  • Complement-dependent cytotoxicity assay,
    flow cytometry, & ELISA
  • Complement and antiglobulin reagents Molecular genetics

Speaker: Michael D. Gautreaux, PhD, FACHI

  • ACHI, California, P.A.C.E®, Florida
  • English
  • 1 hour 11 minutes

Transplant

In the Beginning: HLA Basics

Webinar Objectives: 

  • HLA complex & nomenclature
  • Genetics of the HLA complex
  • Physical and antigenic structure & functioning of HLA gene products

Speaker: Gizem Turmer, MD

  • ACHI, California, P.A.C.E®, Florida
  • English
  • 1 hour 6 minutes

Transplant

Identifier les voies d'accès à la transplantation pour les patients sensibilisés : Un parcours en mutation

Objectif du cours:

  • Nomanclature
  • HLAi & UKLKSS
  • Allocation
  • Post-transplantation

Orateur: Miriam Manook, MBChB, MRCS (Ed), PhD

  • P.A.C.E®, Florida, California, ACHI
  • French
  • 1 hour 7 minutes

Transplant

Webinaire ISHI sur les Effets de la variation du peptide signal HLA de classe I

Effet de la variation du peptide signal HLA de classe I sur l'expression HLA-E avec le Dr. Mary Carrington, Center for Cancer Research, Bethesda, ML

  • P.A.C.E®, Florida, California, ACHI
  • French
  • 1 hour 22 minutes

Transfusion

Hémostase et tests plaquettaires : Résultats de laboratoire pour l'orientation des soins cliniques

Objectif du webinaire:
• Définir les résultats normaux et anormaux du laboratoire de coagulation.
• Corréler les résultats de laboratoire avec les signes et symptômes cliniques courants chez le patient.
• Distinguer les résultats normaux et anormaux du laboratoire de plaquettes.
• Appliquer les résultats de la coagulation et de l'hématologie dans des exemples d'études de cas sur la provision de transfusion appropriée de produits sanguins ou d'une intervention médicale.

Résumé de la session:
La capacité à maintenir l'hémostase est contrôlée en laboratoire à l'aide de méthodes de coagulation et d'hématologie. Ce cours définira les méthodes de laboratoire et les analyses utilisées dans l'évaluation globale de l'hémostase d'un patient. La discussion portera sur le maintien d'une hémostase normale et sur les mesures à prendre en cas de résultats hémostatiques anormaux. Le service de banque de sang/transfusion aide à soigner les patients dont les résultats hémostatiques ou plaquettaires sont anormaux en leur administrant du sang en temps voulu.

Orateur: Jayanna Slayten, MS, MT(ASCP)SBBCM

  • California, Florida, P.A.C.E®
  • French
  • 1 hour 10 minutes

Transfusion

Solutions de gestion des données - Une valeur ajoutée essentielle pour votre laboratoire de transfusion de sang!

Faisons un rapide tour d'horizon

  • Gestion des listes de travail
  • Fgestion des résultats
  • Gestion des rapports
  • Module Panel ID
  • Gestion des archives

Donc, êtes-vous prêt pour un nouveau parcours?

La gestion des données connaît une évolution passionnante.

  • P.A.C.E®, Florida, California
  • French
  • 1 hour 10 minutes

Transfusion

Interactive Transfusion Case Study #1

Webinar Objective:

  • LEARNing is fun in a new way when you complete this virtual intensive, transfusion medicine investigation.

 

  • ACHI, Florida, P.A.C.E®, California
  • English
  • 1 hour

Transplant

Interactive Transplant Case Study #1

Webinar Objectives:

  • LEARNing is fun in a new way when you complete this virtual intensive, transplant medicine investigation.
  • ACHI, Florida, P.A.C.E®, California
  • English
  • 1 hour

Transfusion

Transfusionsauslöser bei Neugeborenen

Zielsetzung des Webinars:

Dieses Seminar richtet sich an Transfusionsmediziner, Transfusionslaborteams und Transfusionsberater, die die Bedürfnisse dieser speziellen Patientengruppe -den Neugeborenen- besser verstehen möchten.

Referentin: Martha Sola-Visner. MD.

  • P.A.C.E®, Florida, California
  • German
  • 1 hour 3 minutes

Transfusion

Desencadenantes para la transfusión en el recién nacido

Objetivos del seminario web:

Este seminario está dirigido a profesionales de transfusión, equipos de laboratorio de transfusión y consultores de transfusión con ánimo de comprender mejor las necesidades de este grupo especial de pacientes, los recién nacidos.

Oradora: Martha Sola-Visner. MD.

  • P.A.C.E®, Florida, California
  • Spanish
  • 1 hour 3 minutes

Transplant

Wege zur Transplantation für sensibilisierte Patienten: Es gibt viel Neues

Ziele des Kurses:

  • Nomenklatur
  • HLAi & UKLKSS
  • Organzuteilung
  • Post-Transplantation

Referent: Miriam Manook, MBChB, MRCS (Ed), PhD

  • P.A.C.E®, Florida, California, ACHI
  • German
  • 1 hour 7 minutes

Transplant

Identificación de vías hacia el trasplante para pacientes sensibilizados: un panorama cambiante

Objetivos del curso:

  • Nomenclatura
  • HLAi y UKLKSS
  • Asignación
  • Post-trasplante

Oradora: Miriam Manook, MBChB, MRCS (Ed), PhD

  • P.A.C.E®, Florida, California, ACHI
  • Spanish
  • 1 hour 7 minutes

Transplant

ISHI-Webinar über die Auswirkungen von HLA-Klasse-I-Signalpeptid-Variationen

Webinar-Ziele:

  • Auswirkung von HLA-Klasse-I-Signalpeptid-Variationen auf die HLA-E-Expression

 

Vortragende: Dr. Mary Carrington, Center for Cancer Research, Bethesda, ML 

  • P.A.C.E®, Florida, California, ACHI
  • German
  • 1 hour 22 minutes

Transplant

Seminario web de ISHI sobre los efectos de la variación del péptido señal HLA Clase I

Objetivos del seminario web:

  • Efecto de la variación del péptido señal HLA Clase I en la expresión HLA-E 

 

Oradora: Dra. Mary Carrington, Centro de Investigación del Cáncer, Bethesda, ML

  • P.A.C.E®, Florida, California, ACHI
  • Spanish
  • 1 hour 22 minutes

Transfusion

Hämostase und Thrombozytentests: Laborergebnisse als Orientierungshilfe für die klinische Versorgung

Webinar-Ziele:
• Normale und abnormale Ergebnisse des Gerinnungslabors definieren.
• Korrelation der Laborergebnisse mit häufigen klinischen Anzeichen und Symptomen des Patienten.
• Normale und abnormale Thrombozyten-Laborergebnisse unterscheiden.
• Anwendung von Gerinnungs- und Hämatologieergebnissen in Fallstudienbeispielen mit Fokus auf die Bereitstellung einer geeigneten Transfusion von Blutprodukten oder medizinischen Maßnahmen.

 

Vortragende: Jayanna Slayten, MS, MT(ASCP)SBBCM

  • California, Florida, P.A.C.E®
  • German
  • 1 hour 10 minutes

Transfusion

Pruebas de Hemostasia y Plaquetas: resultados de laboratorio que brindan orientación o atención clínica

Objetivos del seminario web:

• Definir resultados de laboratorio de coagulación normales y anormales.
• Correlacionar resultados de laboratorio con signos y síntomas clínicos comunes en el paciente.
• Discriminar resultados de laboratorio de plaquetas normales y anormales.
• Aplicar resultados de coagulación y hematología en estudios de casos centrándose en la provisión de transfusión de hemoderivados o intervención médica.

 

Oradora: Jayanna Slayten, MS, MT(ASCP)SBBCM

  • California, Florida, P.A.C.E®
  • Spanish
  • 1 hour 10 minutes

Transfusion

Datenmanagement-Lösungen - ein wichtiger Mehrwert für Ihr Bluttransfusionslabor!

Webinar-Ziele:

  • Arbeitslisten-Management
  • Ergebnis-Management
  • Bericht-Management
  • Panel ID | Module
  • Archivierung

Vortragende: Gianni Giuffrè

  • P.A.C.E®, Florida, California
  • German
  • 1 hour 10 minutes

Transfusion

Soluciones de gestión de datos: ¡un valor añadido clave para su laboratorio de transfusión de sangre!

Objetivos del seminario web:

  • Gestión de listas de trabajo
  • Gestión de resultados
  • Gestión de informes
  • Panel de identificación | Módulo
  • Gestión de archivos

Oradora: Gianni Giuffrè

  • P.A.C.E®, Florida, California
  • Spanish
  • 1 hour 10 minutes

Transfusion

La trayectoria de la Inmunohematología eritrocitaria y su actualidad por Dra. Lilian Castilho

Objetivos del seminario web:

  •  el desarrollo de la inmunohematología hasta los avances tecnológicos e investigació
  • "genómica" y descubrimiento continuo de grupos sanguíneos

Oradora: Dr. Lilian Castilho

  • P.A.C.E®, Florida, California
  • Spanish
  • 1 hour 28 minutes

Transplant

TO PIRCHE OR NOT TO PIRCHE: The Immunogenicity Missing Link

Webinar Objectives:

  •  Learn more about PIRCHE
  • How PIRCHE can help you see beyond limits of transplant diagnostics.

Speaker: Massimo Mangiola, Ph.D., A(ACHI)

  • Florida, ACHI, California, P.A.C.E®
  • English
  • 1 hour 4 minutes

Transplant

ISHI Webinar Series - Clinical Implications of NK cell immunogenetics

Webinar Objecties:

  • Understand the Clinical relevance of NK (natural killer) cells Immunogenetics

Speaker: Dr. Rajalingam Raja, UCSF, USA

  • ACHI, Florida, P.A.C.E®, California
  • English
  • 1 hour 18 minutes

Transfusion

Data Management solutions - A key value add for your Blood Transfusion lab!

Webinar Objectives:

  • Worklist Management
  • Results Management
  • Report Management
  • Panel ID | Module
  • Archive Management

Speaker:  Gianni Giuffrè

  • P.A.C.E®, Florida, California
  • English
  • 1 hour 10 minutes

Transplant

Immucor’s Virtual HLA Antibody Workshop

Webinar Objectives:

  • HLA antibody analysis on the NEW MATCH IT! Antibody v1.5 software using informative case studies and software tools

Speakers: K. Kelly Cousins, BS, CHT (ABHI), Jean L. Heneghan, MS, CHS (ABHI)

 

  • Florida, California, ACHI
  • 1 hour

Transplant

ISHI Webinar Session on Effects of HLA Class I Signal peptide variation

Webinar Objective:

  • Effect of HLA Class I Signal Peptide variation on HLA-E Expression 

Speaker: Dr. Mary Carrington, Center for Cancer Research, Bethesda, ML

  • P.A.C.E®, Florida, California, ACHI
  • 1 hour 22 minutes

Transplant

Identifying Pathways to Transplantation for Sensitized Patients: A Changing Landscape

Webinar Objectives:

  • Nomenclature
  • HLAi & UKLKSS
  • Allocation
  • Post-transplant

Speaker: Miriam Manook, MBChB, MRCS (Ed), PhD

  • P.A.C.E®, Florida, California, ACHI
  • 1 hour 7 minutes

Transfusion

Transfusion Triggers in the Neonate

Webinar Objectives:

This seminar is aimed at Transfusion Practitioners, Transfusion Laboratory Teams and Transfusion Consultants keen to better understand the needs of this special patient group, neonates.

Speaker: Martha Sola-Visner. MD.

  • P.A.C.E®, Florida, California
  • 1 hour 3 minutes

Transfusion

Adverse Effects of Transfusion: Reaction, Response and Resolutions

Webinar Objectives:
• Organize and categorize transfusion complications given the reported signs and symptoms.
• Discover how laboratory findings correlate with the clinical signs and symptoms of transfusion complications.
• Compare and contrast acute and delayed transfusion reactions.
• Apply how to define the adverse complications of transfusion in example case studies.

Speaker: Jayanna Slayten, MS, MT(ASCP)SBBCM

  • Florida, P.A.C.E®, California, ACHI
  • 1 hour 6 minutes

Transfusion

Immunology, Complement and Genetics: The Backbone of the Blood Bank

Webinar Objectives:
• Distinguish immune response into the action of T Cells and B Cells.
• Recognize the role of immunoglobulins and cells involved in primary and secondary immune response.
• Outline function and process of complement activation in transfusion medicine.
• Demonstrate genetic concepts of blood groups exploring pedigree analysis and population genetics.

Speaker: Jayanna Slayten, MS, MT(ASCP)SBBCM

  • California, Florida, P.A.C.E®
  • 1 hour

Transfusion

Blood Groups: Common to Confounding Specificities

Webinar Objectives:
• Identify the common blood groups by genetic background, antigen, antibody and clinical significance.
• Discriminate uncommon blood groups by genetic background, antigen, antibody and clinical significance.
• Give examples of unique characteristics of blood groups and how they relate to the clinical outcomes in patients.
• Apply the knowledge of blood groups to provide the most appropriate blood products for transfusion.

Speaker: Jayanna Slayten, MS, MT(ASCP)SBBCM

  • California, P.A.C.E®, Florida
  • 1 hour 9 minutes

Transfusion

What Blood Bank Tools to Use When and Why: Mastering the Methods

Webinar Objectives:
• Appraise the value of common serologic blood bank methods for the resolution
of serologic blood bank challenges.
• Categorize the methods and tools for atypical serum/plasma challenges compared to red cells challenges.
• Define a systematic approach for ABO discrepancies and atypical antibody detection findings.
• Employ serologic methods in case study examples to demonstrate efficient application.

Speaker:  Jayanna Slayten, MS, MT(ASCP)SBBCM

  • Florida, P.A.C.E®, California
  • 1 hour

Transfusion

Hemostasis and Platelet Testing: Lab Results Providing Guidance or Clinical Care

Webinar Objectives:
• Define normal and abnormal coagulation lab findings.
• Correlate laboratory results with common clinical signs and symptoms in the patient.
• Discriminate normal and abnormal platelet laboratory results.
• Apply coagulation and hematology results in case study examples focusing on the provision of appropriate
transfusion of blood products or medical intervention.

 

Speaker: Jayanna Slayten, MS, MT(ASCP)SBBCM

  • California, Florida, P.A.C.E®
  • English
  • 1 hour 10 minutes

Transplant

Reflections and Future Directions for Testing in Transplantation: Impacts upon Clinicians and Patient Outcomes

Webinar Objectives: 

  • Clear and Unambiguous Typing Results: MIA FORA NGS Expanded Coverage
  • Anti-HLA Antibody Strength & Crossmatch: Is there a Correlation?
  • Enhancing Antibody Analysis for the Benefit of Patient Outcomes using PIRCHE Technology
  • Where Do We Go from Here? The Present and Future of Non-HLA.

Speakers: Tiffany K Bratton, PhD, DABCC, FAACC, FACHI, Alin Girnita, MD, PhD, D(ACHI), Bethany L. Dale, PhD, Michelle Hickey, PhD, D(ACHI)

 

  • ACHI, California, Florida
  • 1 hour 40 minutes

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