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| Advancing Transfusion medicine: from Myths towards Evidence | Back |
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| Date: | Friday March 12th, 2010 |
| Venue: | Leiden University Medical Centre, Building 1, Lecture room 1; LEIDEN; The Netherlands |
| ISBN : | 978-90-6767-674-8 |
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The increasing safety and efficiency of the blood supply, but probably foremost the logical approach to replenish blood loss and insufficient hematopoiesis resulted in overuse of blood products in the past.
Unwanted immuno suppression on the one hand and alloimmunisation and allergic reactions by bloodproducts on the other, increasing costs to ensure blood products with near maximal safety in view of continuously discovered new pathogens transmissible by blood, have now led to a more and more restrictive use of blood.
In this landscape, the challenge of transfusion medicine and all of those connected, is to advance from intuitive, habitual, case-, fear-, or compassionate need-driven strategies towards evidence-based guidelines. Judging and appreciating real evidence-basedness in transfusion medicine, however, is not easy. New myths namely lurk in seemingly well-designed studies with clear conclusions.
A striking example in this matter is the conclusion from a New England Journal of Medicine paper that stored red blood cells cause a higher morbidity and mortality.
Moreover, general conclusions usually from large cohort studies endanger the clear need for more personalized medicine. The 2010 course will at least offer a unique guidance through the most debated issues in transfusion medicine.
Stephen Vamvakas, who at that time will be in Leiden as the incumbent of the prestigious Boerhaave chair will be one of the main speakers in this respect and co-organizer of the course.
S.J. Slichter, MD (Seattle WA), expert in the field of platelet transfusion therapy is an other leading speaker.
Interesting to whom? To all doctors and other specialists involved in transfusion medicine: transfusion specialists, hematologists, clinical chemists, pediatricians, internists, obstetricians and gynaecologists, general surgeons, anesthesiologists and intensive care specialists.
Organising Committee
Prof.dr. E. Briët, Sanquin
Prof.dr. A. Brand, Sanquin
Prof.dr. R.R.P. de Vries, LUMC
E.C. Vamvakas, MD, PhD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
Dr. J.J. Zwaginga, LUMC
The conference language is English
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