FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, September 7, 2007
Contact: Robert J. Kopchinski, SABM Executive Director
Tel: (414) 276-9339
Fax: (414) 276-3349
E-mail: rkopchinski@sabm.org

Blood Safety, Supply, and Innovations in Blood Conservation Addressed at National Medical Conference in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES (date) – The Society for the Advancement of Blood Management (SABM) will hold its Sixth Annual National Meeting at the Renaissance Hotel on Hollywood and Highland in Los Angeles, California, September 7 through September 9, 2007. The topics for discussion at the meeting cover blood conservation during surgery, trauma along with:
- Anemia in Women
- Limits of acute normovolemic anemia.
- Successfully integrating blood conservation into the standard of care.
- Anemia, chronic heart failure and chronic renal failure: a lethal interaction.
- Ethical and legal implications of informed consent in transfusion therapy.
- When to transfuse or when not to transfuse.

The meeting will be attended by clinicians and specialists from the United States, Europe, Canada, Asia, and Australia who work with or conduct research concerning the better use of blood products and transfusion alternatives. The meeting also includes a live video and audio feed from the operating room on a bloodless cardiac operation.
 
“In an era of continued concern about the cost and safety of blood transfusions, the practice of blood conservation makes great medical sense. Our annual meeting brings together the latest advances in the field and encourages dialogue across multiple disciplines for physicians and other healthcare providers,” said Patricia Ford, M.D., President of SABM.   

SABM is an educational organization comprised of a national network of medical practitioners from a wide variety of medical and scientific disciplines who are dedicated to the advancement of optimal blood management in clinical practice through education, cooperation and research. SABM works to facilitate cooperation among existing and future blood conservation, bloodless medicine and surgery programs as well as enhance the clinical and scientific aspects of transfusion practice. Additional information is available at www.sabm.org.

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