8 November 2017 01:30pm - 02:30pm - Australia/Adelaide
This session provides an overview of possible clinical errors during a blood transfusion.
| Presenter: | Dr Beveleigh Quested, Transfusion Education Manager, Blood Service. |
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Since 1967, the lives of countless babies have been saved by the pioneering Rh Program - and to date, over three million doses of anti-D have been given to Rh negative women.
The program provides plasma collected from blood donors with anti-D for production of anti-D immunoglobulin for treatment of RhD negative women with babies at risk of haemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (HDFN).
The following two presentations commemorate 50 years of the Anti-D Program and look at the prevention of Rh HDFN.
| Presenters: | Jessie Wallis, RhD Program Coordinator, South Australia, Australian Red Cross Blood Service. |
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| Dr Amanda Thomson, Haematologist/Transfusion Medicine Specialist, Australian Red Cross Blood Service. |
16 August 2017 12:30pm - 01:30pm - Australia/Sydney
The research and development team at the Blood Service conducts leading-edge research to find improved ways to process, store and distribute blood components. This session explores data linkage and provides an update on a data linkage study in maternity.
| Presenter: | Professor David Irving, Director, Research and Development, Blood Service. |
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10 May 2017 01:30pm - 02:30pm - Australia/Sydney
How I get the best out of a platelet transfusion.
| Presenter: | Dr Richard Kaufman, Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School and Medical Director of Adult Transfusion Medicine Service, Brigham and Women's Hospital, United States of America. |
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Transfusion Update Conference 2017: Day 1 Clinical - Thursday 27 April 2017
Presenter: Dr Meghan Delaney, Associate Professor, Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington and Medical Director, Transfusion and Apheresis Services, Seattle Children's Hospital, United States of America.
Transfusion Update Conference 2017: Day 1 Clinical - Thursday 27 April 2017
Presenter: Dr Nancy Dunbar, Associate Professor, The Geisel School of Medicine and Medical Director, Blood Bank, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Centre, New Hampshire, United States of America.
Transfusion Update Conference 2017: Day 1 Clinical - Thursday 27 April 2017
Presenter: Dr Lilon Bandler, Associate Professor, Indigenous Health Education Unit, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Australia.
Transfusion Update Conference 2017: Day 1 Clinical - Thursday 27 April 2017
Presenter: Dr Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge and NHSBT, England.
Transfusion Update Conference 2017: Day 1 Clinical - Thursday 27 April 2017
Presenter: Dr Meghan Delaney, Associate Professor, Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington and Medical Director, Transfusion and Apheresis Services, Seattle Children's Hospital, United States of America.
Transfusion Update 2017: Day 1 Clinical - Thursday 27 April 2017
Presenter: Dr Mark Yazer, Professor of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh and member of the Institute for Transfusion Medicine, United States of America.
Transfusion Update Conference 2017: Day 1 Clinical - Thursday 27 April 2017
Presenter: Dr James Winearls, Consultant Intensivist, Gold Coast University Hospital, Australia
Transfusion Update Conference 2017: Day 1 Clinical - Thursday 27 April 2017
Presenter: Dr Richard Kaufman, Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School and Medical Director of Adult Transfusion Service, Brigham and Women's Hospital, United States of America
Transfusion Update Conference 2017: Day 1 Clinical - Thursday 27 April 2017
Presenter: Dr Lacey Johnson, Principal Research Fellow, Australian Red Cross Blood Service
Transfusion Update Conference 2017: Day 1 Clinical - Thursday 27 April 2017
Presenter: Dr Mark Fung, Director of Clinical Laboratories, University of Vermont Medical Center and Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Vermont, United States of America.
Transfusion Update Conference 2017: Day 1 Clinical - Thursday 27 April 2017
Presenter: Dr Alan Tinmouth, Assistant Professor, Departments of Benign Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa, Canada.
Transfusion Update Conference 2017: Day 1 Clinical - Thursday 27 April 2017
Presenter: Dr Phillip Mondy, Transfusion Medicine Specialist, Australian Red Cross Blood Service, Australia.
13 October 2016 01:00pm - 02:00pm - Australia/Melbourne
Retrieval medicine has changed the way trauma patients haemostasis is managed and their outcomes. Data, the golden hour, helicopters, paramedics and transfusion support are part of retrieval medicine.
| Presenters: | Dr Chris Hogan, Medical Director, Pathology Services, Blood Service, Haematologist, Royal Melbourne Hospital. |
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| Mr Murray Barkmeyer, Paramedic, Air Ambulance Victoria |
20 July 2016 03:00pm - 04:00pm - Australia/Sydney
This session identifies the occurrence of transfusion related unwanted events, to increase the safety, efficacy and efficiency of blood transfusion, covering all activities of the transfusion chain from donor to recipient.
| Presenters: | Dr Paula Bolton-Maggs, Medical Director, Serious Hazards of Transfusion Scheme (SHOT), NHSBT, UK. |
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| Justine O'Donovan, National Donor Haemovigilance Officer, Blood Service. |
In this presentation, recorded at Transfusion Update 2016, Dr Chris Hogan gives on overview of the current literature about managing massive transfusion in general, before taking an in-depth look at the use of fibrinogen in clinical settings.
8 August 2016 12:00pm - 01:00pm - Australia/Darwin
This session explores issues related to Transfusion in the Northern Territory and transfusion related support issues for remote and isolated communities.
Presentation 1:Transfusion medicine services in the top end of Australia Presenter: Kylie Wright, Senior Transfusion Scientist, Royal Darwin Hospital | |
| Presentation 2:Alice Springs Hospital Presenter: Tracy O'Brien, Transfusion Scientist, Alice Springs Hospital | |
| Presentation 3: NT Transfusion Clinical Practice Presenter: Julie Domanski, Transfusion Clinical Nurse, Royal Darwin Hospital |