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BBTS Annual Conference 2012 Presentations

 

The following speakers have given their permission for their presentations to be made available

Wednesday 26 September

Red Cell 1 

Transfusion Medicine & KODE Technology: R&D tools, QC Systems, diagnostics and therapeutics

Henry

The pathophysiology of sickle cell disease

Rees    

Hospital Transfusion 

The appropriate use of red cell transfusion in medical patients: results of the National Comparative Audit

Pendry

The challenges of long term transfusion  

Norfolk

Blood Components

Learning to love your regulator - living with the US FDA   

AuBuchon 

Home truths - the use of blood components in the UK

Wallis

Red Cell 2

Some observations on haemoglobin A2

Bain

Apheresis and Blood Collection

Blood Group Education -'Starting the conversation'

Wilson

Irish Success stories

Mclaughin 

Paediatrics

Transfusion associated necrotizing enterocolitis - is there a casual link?

Gupta

Red Cell 3 

The role of flow cytometry in diagnosis and monitoring of patients with paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria

Richards 

Blood Bank Technology

Appearance of Anti-D in a 4 year old apparently transfused only RhD negative components

Gale 

Haemolytic transfusion reactions with no cause? Keep calm and carry on

Phillpot 

Microbiology

Beating the bugs: exploring the options to improve platelet transfusion

AuBuchon  

Bacterial screening of platelet components in NHSBT - was it worth it?

McDonald

Plenary 1: Ethics and Consent

Consent for cord blood

Moss

Consent for blood donation

Franklin 

Consent for blood transfusion

Allard

The Tipping Point - consent in organ donation

Clarkson 

Consent for transfusion - an online education resource

Watson  

Thursday 26 September  

Education session II

How to write a good abstract

Madgwick

Clinical management of adverse reactions in transfusion

Plenary II - Award Lectures  

To err is human - the evolution of transfusion safety in hospitals

Norfolk   

Experienced or Enfeebled? Does red cell storage affect patient outcome?

AuBuchon  

Sim 1: Rare Phenotype Donors

Rare donors: the French experience

Peyrard 

Use of rare blood in complex cases

Thornton 

Orals 1: Clinical Transfusion  

Factors associated with platelet wastage in Scottish Hospitals

Wells

The development of a blood management programme for Orthopaedic surgery at the Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust

Ryberg  

Implementation of a two sample policy for compatibility testing

Kerr 

Orals 2: Clinical Audit

Are major haemorrhage protocols effective? An audit of 4 major trauma centres

Lawn

A national comparative re-audit of bedside transfusion practice

Cottrell   

Control of platelet transfusion in a teaching hospital setting

Copplestone

Using real life scenarios and rrors to improve IQA for all staff involved in transfusion

Stephens 

Requirement for a knowledge-based competency assessment scheme (KBCAS) provided by the UK National External Quality Assessment Scheme (NEQAS) for Blood Transfusion Laboratory Practice (BTLP)       

White

Re-audit of informed consent and patient understanding of blood transfusion

Court 

SIM III

Developing an effective incident management system

Langham

SIM VI

OSCE assessment tool and its role in the development of HCSW within the Welsh Blood Service

Gregory

Why is the Care Quality Commission relevant to NHS Blood and Transplant?

Adam

Leading Better Care - the impact of the programme in SNBTS

Millar 

Demonstrating compliance by showing we care

Sheldon

Plenary III 

vCJD - where are we now?

Knight

An assay for vCJD: are we nearly there yet?

Minor 

vCJD interventions - how did we get here?

Thomas 

Friday 28 September

Plenary IV

From enucleation to mature erythrocyte: Imaging reticulocyte maturation in vitro 

Griffiths

A universal erythrocyte receptor for plasmodium falciparum invasion

Rayner 

SIM VII

Use of incompatible blood in a life-threatening obstetric haemhorrhage

Matthey    

'No transfusion' approach to massive haemhorrhage

Shokhoohi

A predictive tool for TACO or just common sense?

Williams

Renal patient with haemolysis - have we thought of everything?

Nadarajah 

Balancing the risks: a difficult case of sickle pregnancy

Ryan 

SIM VIII

Platelet production in vitro: the way forward from iPSCs

Ghevaert 

Use of human induced pluripotent stem cells to derive haematopoietic progenitors for erythropoiesis and red cell production

Carpenter 

SIM XI

Orals 3: Miscellaneous

Novel mutations in RHAG causing two new examples of the regulator type of Rhnull

Grimsley    

The rare Wr(b-) phenotype arising from a novel mutation in GYPA paired with GP.Hil (Mi.V.)

Tiley 

A serological and molecular study of a novel XK inactivating mutation in McLeod syndrome

Crew  

Are patients with anti-M being managed appropriately?

Crumlish 

SIM X

Identify the need for change using audit

Murray  

Making change happen

Hinde

Support for change

Grainger

SIM XI

Using platelets in haematology: new studies

Estcourt   

SIM XII

Trials of several platforms for high-throughput blood group genotyping of donors

Finning

 

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