Aim of the webinar
To present the 15-year experience of a Portuguese Cellular Therapy Department in the collection of peripheral blood stem cells, by apheresis, in very low-weight children with malignant diseases. The institutional collection protocol will be detailed, in an approach focused on the challenges and strategies that have been applied to manage leukapheresis in this population.
Level of education required:
Intermediate (practical application)
What prior knowledge is required?
No prior specific reading is recommended. General knowledge about apheresis, including practical application, is nevertheless required.
Target audience
Physicians, nurses and technicians working in the field of Cellular Therapy.
Speaker:
Lúcia Vieira
Moderator:
Nour Almozain
Nour is Haematopatgology and Transfusion Medicine Physician at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center. Her passion for transfusion medicine started by realizing the profound interaction between basic science, laboratory medicine, and clinical practice.
It is an opportunity to learn a new thing every day. You are not only required to identify what went right and what went wrong. However, you will constantly be stimulated to determine further what could be done better and forecast a better practice for the future. Adding to all of that, the are not many doctors around the world who are encouraged to have this as a specialty, so she decided to have it as her career to provide patient care uniquely and differently. Besides, she is a big advocate for this specialty among the younger generation.
