Expert meeting "Evidence-based transfusion medicine"

 

The Superior Health Council invites you to the expert meeting "Evidence-based transfusion medicine". The event takes place on 19 April 2012.

 

 Specific goals of the meeting

  • Discuss the available evidence on transfusion medicine in the ICU setting
  • Inform participants on the nature and limitations of non-randomized and observational clinical trials on the RBC storage lesion
  • Discuss and look ahead to trials on the clinical impact of the RBC storage lesion
  • Inform participants on state-of-the-art practical approaches in the field of blood management (hospital based, peri-operative and non-surgical techniques)
  • Assess the efforts made towards determining the effectiveness of blood management initiatives

 

The programme

13:30Registration
13:50Welcome - opening comments
14:00'We should abandon randomized controlled trials in the intensive care unit' Jean-Louis Vincent, Department of Internsive Care, Erasme Hospital (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
14:30Discussion
14:50'What do we know? The clinical impact of the RBC storage lesion' Mark Yazer, Division of Transfusion Medicine, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburg School of Medecine, Pittsburg (PA), USA
15:20Discussion
15:40Coffee break
16:00' How to implement a hospital based blood management program?' Jonathan Waters, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Pittsburg School of Medecine, Pittsburg (PA), USA
16:30Discussion
16:50General discussion
17:20Close

 

Registration

Registration is free. Please register before 23 March 2012. Click here for the online registration form.

 

Venue

The Meeting will be held at the Tour du Midi/Zuidertoren, 'Europa' Auditorium, Esplanade de l’Europe/Europa Esplanade, Brussels. Click here for more details.

 

Contact

Scientific collaborator: Dr. Roland Hübner
Phone: +32(0)2/525.09.50, e-mail: roland.hubner@health.belgium.be 
 

Superior Health Council
rue de l'Autonomie 4
1070 Brussels

Tel. 02/525.09.00


Comments or questions related to the contents and procedures: andre.pauwels@health.fgov.be  
Ordering brochures: info.hgr-css@health.fgov.be, fax: 02 525 09 77
 

Published on 08/02/2012 – Page last updated on 19/02/2012

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