Physicians from across the country gathered in New York for a seminar on patient blood management, hosted by the Department of Anesthesiology and the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine.
The seminar, titled the New York Perioperative Hemostasis Course, included lectures, case presentations and panel discussions on a range of topics associated with the management and prevention of perioperative bleeding. It was held July 7-9 at the Cornell Club.
"The goal was to create a forum to increase our understanding of the current best practices in perioperative hemostasis and patient blood management, and I think we accomplished that," said Dr. Natalia Ivascu, associate professor of clinical anesthesiology and a member of the conference steering committee. Other steering committee members were Drs. Thorsten Haas and Stavros Memtsoudis.
Dr. Melissa Cushing welcomes participants.
Presenters included 17 international experts in the field. Course Directors Drs. Melissa Cushing and Hugh Hemmings, chair of the department of anesthesiology, opened the session.
Other presentations by Weill Cornell Anesthesiology faculty included:
- Dr. Hugh Hemmings: Hemostatic Agents: Factor Concentrates and Drugs
- Drs. Natalia Ivascu and Bruce Spiess: Viscoelastic Testing Cases
- Dr. Klaus Kjaer: Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage
- Dr. Sean Garvin (affiliated faculty): Perioperative Antithrombotic Drug Management
- Dr. Stavros Memtsoudis (affiliated faculty): Bleeding Management in Orthopedic Surgery
The course drew physicians from across the United States and from numerous specialties including surgery, transfusion and perioperative medicine, transplantation, pediatrics, obstetrics and anesthesiology.
"It was truly a multidisciplinary collaboration among physicians from all different specialties and areas of the country," said Dr. Ivascu.