ANZSBT/NATA Perioperative Patient Blood Management Symposium

A one-day symposium on Perioperative Patient Blood Management was held on October 19, 2013 at the Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre in Queensland, Australia, before the the Annual Scientific Meeting and Trade Exhibition of the HAA (Haematology Society of Australia and New Zealand, the Australian & New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion and the Australasian Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis). This pre-congress satellite symposium was jointly organized by ANZSBT and NATA.

The following lectures were presented:

• Blood conservation overview—Dafydd Thomas (UK)
• Clinical effectiveness of blood components—Simon Stanworth (UK)
• Clinical use of blood – more or less or just right?—Jonathan Wallis (UK)
• Preoperative anaemia clinics—Kathryn Robinson (SA, Australia)
• Managing bleeding in cardiac surgery—Daniel Faulke (QLD, Australia)
• Point of care implementation—Bronwyn Pearse (QLD, Australia)
• Intraoperative cell salvage—Hayden Dando (NSW, Australia)
• Peri-operative coagulopathy—Sibylle Kozek (Austria)
• Management of GI bleeding—David Hewett (QLD, Australia)
• Obstetric bleeding—Anne Sneddon (QLD, Australia)
• Massive haemorrhage protocols- do they work?—David Roxby (SA, Australia)
• Guidelines and toolkits: who uses them?—Dafydd Thomas (UK)
• Patient blood management guidelines—Leigh McJames (ACT, Australia)