ASH 2010 meeting report-Top 10 clinically oriented abstracts in coagulation medicine and platelet disorders

2010 Annual Meeting Abstracts

SICB 2010 Annual Meeting Abstracts

Cynthia A; HRANITZ, John M; Bloomsburg University; [email protected] Temperature-Induced Stress Responses in the Blackworm (Lumbriculus variegatus) The aquatic worm Lumbriculus variegatus (blackworm) is an ideal candidate for toxicity testing and is being used increasingly to assess ecological risk. Blackworms are sensitive to sublethal doses of various toxins and display readily observable b...

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...

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...