Congratulations to Dr Allison Mo on receiving one of the three 2018 Research Fund Grants. Read more about Allison’s work here…
Congratulations to Dr Allison Mo on receiving one of the three 2018 Research Fund Grants. Read more about Allison’s work here…
The Thrombotic Microangiopathies Registry has forwarded the following communication:
“The Thrombotic Microangiopathies Registry presents their May 2019 Newsletter.
The Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP) Registry/ Thrombotic Microangiopathy (TMA) Registry was established in 2009 under the auspices of the Transfusion Outcome Research Collaborative (TORC) collaboration between Monash University’s Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, and the Australian Red Cross Blood Service, and hospitals across Australia.
A large number of centres have obtained ethics approvals with over 300 patients enrolled so far. Registration is ongoing, so please contact us if your site is not participating, and you want to be involved.
Opportunities that are running in conjunction with the Registry:
Thrombotic Microangiopathies Symposium, 5 July 2019
As part of the ISTH Congress, the Registry is holding a free TMA Symposium titled “Making Sense of Thrombotic Microangiopathies”. The day will feature talks from local and international speakers, as well as some interesting case presentations.
For more information and to register, please click here.
2019 TMA Survey
As part of this project, the TTP Registry is conducting a survey of centres managing patients with TTP and other TMAs. This survey updates a similar survey performed in 2015. The current survey seeks to determine how widely specialised testing (ADAMTS13 levels, anti-ADAMTS13 antibodies, genetic testing etc) is being performed, the range of therapies used in the management of TTP/TMAs and if/how this has changed over the last 4 years.
This survey should take only 15 to 20 minutes and an information sheet is attached.
You can access the survey by clicking here.
We hope to see you all at the TMA Symposium and look forward to receiving your survey responses.”
We sincerely congratulate one of our long-standing members, Dawn Thorp AO, on being awarded the Order of Australia in the Australia Day honours this year for Services to Nursing and to Medicine in the field of Haematology as an expert clinician and as a mentor.
Dawn is exceptionally regarded nationally and internationally in haematology nursing, haemophilia and transfusion medicine fields. We thank her for her many contributions to our society over the years, as a long-standing member of ANZSBT, as a member of the ANZSBT Science Committee and on being one of the main authors on the first edition of the Guidelines for the Administration of Blood Components Transfusion in 2004.
(This may be of interest to medical members as it is specifically targeting medical specialists and asking them about their practice with regard to requesting genomics testing).
The Australian Genomics Health Alliance which is an NH&MRC-funded study is gathering perspectives on incorporating genomics into mainstream healthcare in Australia. Their program of research looks at how best to prepare the health professional workforce.
They are requesting help in completing a research survey for medical specialists through the Australian & New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion. The anonymous survey takes about 15 minutes to complete, and asks Australian specialists about their current and future clinical practice in genomics, and what training would best suit them to prepare to incorporate genomics.
For more information on this, please click on the document below:
The ANZSBT has just released their April 2019 Newsletter which can be found by clicking here
An important benefit of ISBT Affiliate Membership is that ANZSBT members receive free access to a suite of material on the ISBT’s educational platform, ISBT Education.
On ISBT Education you will find an international guideline library, an educational eBook and accredited webcasts from various ISBT congresses. All in all, the Affiliate Suite presents useful basic knowledge on a wide range of topics related to transfusion medicine.
Please visit our Members Area by clicking on the link below. This will give you instructions on how to register if you have not already done so.
Members can now log in to view the latest NBTC Background Paper with Outcomes tabling the latest updates in Transfusion Practices.
To log in, please click on the link below: https://members.anzsbt.org.au/members/national-blood-transfusion-committee-background-paper-with-outcomes/
The International Collaboration for Transfusion Medicine Guidelines (ICTMG) was established in 2011 and members include international transfusion experts. The goal of the ICTMG is to create and promote evidence-based clinical guidelines to optimize transfusion medicine. Current guideline topics include: Platelet, FNAIT and Hemoglobinopathies.
For more information, please visit our Other Guidelines webpage: https://members.anzsbt.org.au/guidelines-standards/other-guidelines-standards/
We are happy to announce that ANZSBT has been chosen to host the non European regional congress of the ISBT in 2021.
The Congress will be held in Brisbane from the 16th to 19th of November 2021 and we look forward to your attendance at this meeting.
The last ISBT Congress that was held in Australia was in 1986.