Patient Blood Management: What is the Laboratory's Role in Reducing Patient Blood Loss?

Join us for an in-depth look at patient blood management. We’ll explore strategies for minimizing patient blood loss and what role the laboratory can play in making improvements.

Objectives

1. Identify average daily blood loss in inpatients
2. Describe how excessive blood loss leads to hospital acquired anemia (HAA)
3. Understand the consequences of HAA
4. Identify ways laboratories can minimize patient blood loss during hospitalization

    

Meet the Speaker

Professor Ana-Maria Šimundić, PhD, EuSpLM, Director Global Medical & Clinical Affairs at Greiner Bio-One GmbH, is a well-known key opinion leader in laboratory diagnostics and preanalytics.

From 2020 to 2021, she was President of the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EFLM), and now she is a member of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry (IFCC) Executive Board as an EFLM representative and a former President of the EFLM board. During her time as EFLM President, she set up the EFLM Preanalytics Conference and led various working groups, for example. Most recently, she was Managing Director of Clinical Hospital Sveti Duh in Zagreb and Department Head of Medical Laboratory Diagnostics.

Ana-Maria completed her doctorate in 2003 at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry of the University of Zagreb, where she is a university professor for laboratory medicine. She has received multiple awards for her research in the areas of preanalytics and quality management.