Research Initiatives

In July 2004, SABM held two consensus development conferences. The first was on the management of anemia in the elective surgery patient held July 9-10, 2004. The second, in collaboration with the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), was on the use of recombinant human factor VIIa (rVIIa) in non-approved clinical settings and was held July 16-18, 2004. The majority of the participants of each conference were members of the Society. Both of these articles were published during 2005. The authors feel that the recommendations made in these articles will ultimately improve patient outcomes.

Detection, Evaluation, and Management of Anemia in the Elective Surgical Patient
Lawrence Tim Goodnough, MD; Aryeh Shander, MD; Jerry L. Spivak, MD; Jonathan H. Waters, MD; Arnold J. Friedman, MD; Jeffrey L. Carson, MD; E. Michael Keating, MD; Thomas Maddox, MD; Richard Spence, MD. Anesthesia & Analgesia, 2005 Dec;101(6):1858-61 www.anesthesia analgesia.org/cgi/content/abstract/101/6/1858

Consensus Recommendations for the Off-Label Use of Recombinant Human Factor VIIa (NovoSeven®) Therapy
Aryeh Shander, MD; Lawrence Tim Goodnough, MD; Thomas Ratko, PhD; Karl A. Matuszewski, MS, PharmD; Stephen Cohn, MD; Michael Diringer, MD; Henry Edmunds, MD; Jeffrey Lawson, MD, PhD; Robert MacLaren, PharmD; Paul Ness, MD; Roger Shere-Wolfe, MD, JD; and Robert Dubois, MD; Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 2005 Nov:30(11)644 www.ptcommunity.com/ptjournal/fulltext/30/11/PTJ3011644.pdf

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