validação e conduta nas transfusões de plaquetas; Crossmatching plaquetário; Refratariedade Plaquetária.

Speakers: Ana Paula Rocha Diniz Zanelli; Cristina Altobeli; Juliana Pires Marafon Franz

Reagentes Especiais em Imunohematologia: como usar e qual a importância na resolução de casos clínicos complexos; A importância da detecção sorológica para direcionar a investigação molecular; Tipagem molecular dos genes de grupos sanguíneos no auxílio diagnostico.

Speakers: Regina Cardoso; Tatiane de Paula Vendrame; Carine Arnoni, Tamires Delfino dos Santos, Lilian Castilho, PhD

Level of Instruction: Basic

Summary of Session:  The second webinar in this BBTS series invites Noemi Roy to talk about advances in treatments for patients with Sickle Cell Disease. Noemi will be followed by Farrukh Shah, who will talk about the National Haemoglobinopathy Registry

Speakers:

Noemi Roy

Consultant Haematology

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Farrukh Shah

Medical Director, Transfusion at NHSBT

Consultant, Whittington Health NHS Trust

Session will be chaired by Julie Staves, Chair of BBTS Annual Meeting Committee

Chairperson:

Dr. Anand Deshpande, Consultant Transfusion Medicine & Haematology,

P. D. Hinduja National Hospital & M. R. C. Mahim, Mumbai

Speaker:

Dr. Rajeshwari Basavanna, Consultant Transfusion Medicine,

P. D. Hinduja National Hospital & Medical Research Centre,

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Immucor is committed to supporting the testing you perform by offering a complete and convenient line of competency testing products – from basic to advanced.  Click ‘LUNCH COURSE’ below to submit results for Self-check II Competency Kit.

Immucor is committed to supporting the testing you perform by offering a complete and convenient line of competency testing products – from basic to advanced.  Click ‘LUNCH COURSE’ below to submit results for RiSE Competency Kit.

Immucor is committed to supporting the testing you perform by offering a complete and convenient line of competency testing products – from basic to advanced.  Click ‘LUNCH COURSE’ below to submit results for Gamma® Tech-Chek Competency Kit.

Summary of Webinar:

With over 70% of the UK’s air ambulance charities now carrying blood on board, the introduction of pre hospital blood transfusion has improved the chances of survival in the most critically ill and injured patients.

This webinar invites Dr James Raitt to share guidance and governance around pre hospital transfusions, the logistics and mechanics of providing blood on board and a recent review of patients who were transfused in the pre hospital setting. Kerry Dowling will talk on continued evolutions in pre hospital transfusion, discussing the use of O pos red cells in the emergency roadside setting.

AGENDA

Blood component usage in the pre hospital setting

Dr. James Raitt MBChB, FRCEM, FIMC

Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Pre Hospital Emergency Medicine

Audit, Improvement and Research (AIR) Group Lead

Thames Valley Air Ambulance

The use of O positive red cells in the pre hospital setting

Kerry Dowling

Blood Transfusion Laboratory & Phlebotomy Manager

Laboratory Medicine

Southampton General Hospital

Session will be chaired by Julie Staves, Chair of BBTS Annual Meeting Committee

Speaker:

Dr. Joannis Mytilineos

Chief Medical Officer, ZKRD,

German National Bone Marrow Donor Registry

Speaker: Dr. Meenakshi Singh, Advanced center for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer, Navi Mumbai, India

The aim of this symposium is to present some case studies in different immunohematology segments that require the use of advanced serologic or genomic procedures.

AGENDA

RhD Case Studies: Interpretation and Patient Risks in Transfusions
Dr Lilian Castilho, PhD
Director of the Molecular Immunohematology Laboratory
at Hemocentro-UNICAMP-Campinas, Brazil

Management of platelet alloimmunization on the Maternity Laboratory
Dr Rachel Petermann, MD, PhD
Centre National de Référence d’Hémobiologie Périnatale UF Biologie CNRHP –
Immunologie plaquettaire Hôpital St Antoine, France

The challenging effects of monoclonal antibody therapies on the Transfusion Laboratory
Julie Staves Manager, Transfusion Laboratory
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, United Kingdom

This is a recording of a webinar presented on March 17, 2016 by Janis Hamilton from the Detroit Red Cross IRL and Dr. Carlos Villa from Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.