Learn Transfusion

Learn Transfusion is the seminar component of Canadian Blood Service's Transfusion Medicine Residency program. However, all practitioners in the field of Transfusion Medicine are welcome to participate. See Join Learn Transfusion for more information.

mai 2013

Clinical Impact of Red Cell Storage Time: the ARIPI Study

Date: 
mai 7, 2013
Heure: 
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Eastern
Location: 
1-866-752-7690 ID 1775282
Speaker(s): 
Dean Fergusson, MHA, PhD

  1. Understand the evidence-base for the effects  of red cell storage age in the critically ill
  2. Learn about the clinical  impact of storage age in a neonatal critical care population
  3. Learn about ongoing and future research assessing red cell storage age

O Negative Red Cell Utilization

Date: 
mai 16, 2013
Heure: 
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Eastern
Location: 
Mount Sinai Hospital- Ben Sadowski Auditorium, 18th Floor
Speaker(s): 
Dr. Kathryn Webert

Anaemia and Tissue Hypoxia Markers

Date: 
mai 21, 2013
Heure: 
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Eastern
Location: 
1-866-752-7690 ID 1775282
Speaker(s): 
Dr. Greg Hare

Objectives:

1)      To review the adaptive physiology and cellular biology of anemia.

2)      To review the risks of anemia vs. transfusion of RBCs

3)      To propose novel approaches to identify patients at risk of anemia-induced mortality with the goal of improving patient outcomes.

"Red Blood Cell Storage Lesion"

Date: 
mai 28, 2013
Heure: 
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Eastern
Location: 
1-866-752-7690 ID 1775282
Speaker(s): 
Jelena Holovati

Objectives:

  1. To appreciate the relationship between biopreservation sciences and transfusion medicine

 

  1. To understand the elements and clinical significance of red blood cell storage lesion

 

  1. To describe current approaches to combat red blood cell storage lesion

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