title: Transfusion medicine education session.
abstract: The European Haematology Association annual meeting is the second largest conference organized specifically for hematologists. This meeting report gives an overview of one particular session within this meeting, that of the transfusion medicine subject speciality, which included two speakers from the USA and one from the UK. The following lectures will be reviewed here: Jo-Ann Moulds--Transfusion policies and practices in alloimmunized sickle cell patients; Derwood Pamphilon--Transfusion problems in stem cell transplant patients; and Naomi Luban--Transfusion issues in neonatal and pediatric hematology. The session, therefore, included a significant discourse in clinical practice of transfusing the difficult to transfuse patient.
authors.affiliation: School of Biomedical and Biological Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drake's Circus, Plymouth, UK. neil.avent@plymouth.ac.uk
authors.forename: Neil D
authors.initials: ND
authors.lastname: Avent
mesh_terms: D001803:Blood Transfusion / Q000639:trends; D002648:Child; D003162:Competency-Based Education; D006403:Hematologic Tests; D006405:Hematology / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D017713:Platelet Transfusion; D057766:Policy