Session Information
AABB Annual Meeting and CTTXPO 2010
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Pediatric Transfusion Medicine
Track : Oral Abstracts
Program Code: 020E
Date: Sunday, October 10, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM  EST
Location: 343/344
MODERATOR (S):
Dr. Deborah Sesok-Pizzini, MD, MBA, Medical Director, Blood Bank, University of Pennsylvania
Steven Sloan, MD, PhD, Medical Director, Children's Hospital Boston
Description

OBJECTIVES:
  • Evaluate the response to random donor platelets in newborns with Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia.
  • Discuss the effects of red blood cell and granulocyte transfusions in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplant.
  • Review studies of large volume pre-operative autologous donations in pediatric patients and a case report of transfusion acquired carboxyhemoglobinemia during surgery.
  • Explain an association of leucopenia and anti-HLA Class 1 Antibodies as a cause of neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia.


CE CategoryCE Value
California Clinical Laboratory Personnel 1.5
California Nurse 1.8
Florida Laboratory Personnel 1.8
General Attendee 1.5
Physician 1.5
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