ASH 2009 meeting report-Top 10 clinically oriented abstracts in coagulation medicine and platelet disorders

2005–2009 ASCB Annual Meeting abstracts

Transfusion Medicine and Coagulation Disorders

Coagulation and bleeding assume particular importance when operations are performed on the heart using extracorporeal circulation. This chapter begins with a discussion of the depth and breadth of hemostasis relating to cardiac procedures, beginning with coagulation pathophysiology. The pharmacology of heparin and protamine is described next. This background is then applied to treatment of the ...

Meeting abstracts from the 7th Danish Emergency Medicine Conference

A1 QuickSOFA is an independent predictor of 30-day mortality among patients admitted to an emergency department with suspected or documented infection Osama Bin Abdullah, Johannes Grand, Astha Sijapati, Petrine Nimskov, Finn Erland Nielsen Department of Emergency Medicine, Slagelse Hospital, Slagelse, Denmark; Department of Clinical Research and Institute of Regional Health Services Research, U...

Yale University School of Medicine Thesis Abstracts — 2009

Antidepressant medications are commonly prescribed for older adults with depressive symptoms who may not have a major depressive disorder. Yet the effect of antidepressants on depressive symptoms in this population over time is largely unknown. We sought to determine whether the use of antidepressant medications is associated with a reduction in the severity of depressive symptoms over time. Pa...

Coagulation and Transfusion Medicine / HIV TRANSMISSION FROM PLATELET DONATION

Recently, blood centers began investigational testing for HIV RNA by pooled nucleic acid testing (NAT). A 35-year-old frequent platelet donor tested HIV p24 antigen positive, antibody negative before implementation of NAT. He made 2 platelet donations (day –4 and –11) immediately before testing positive for HIV. The donor’s HIV seroconversion was monitored, and stored samples were tested retros...