Anticoagulation treatment has been revolutionised in the past few decades with the development of drugs that increasingly target individual components of the coagulation cascade. Yet the quest to find improved

Despite studies supporting a restrictive red cell transfusion strategy in many medical situations, a more liberal strategy is still widely used in patients who need extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), Alexander

According to the World Health Organisation, widespread implementation of patient blood management (PBM) programmes remains an urgent need.1 It is also important to evaluate how well they are working, says

Tranexamic acid (TXA) is safe to use to prevent bleeding in patients at the time of surgery, even in those at risk of thrombosis, according to Patrick Meybohm (University Hospital

There will be something for everyone in this year’s Scientific Programme, according to Sigismond Lasocki (University Hospital Angers, France), the Chair of the Scientific Committee.

“We tried to have not only a diversity of topics but also a diversity of speakers – both in terms of their home countries and in terms of their medical specialities,” says Lasocki.