Evolving conundrum: Who gets red blood cell transfusions and when?

Live Journal Club Recording

26 Sep 2024

Aim of the Live Journal Club

To demonstrate understanding of the most recent recommendations for red blood cell transfusion.
To elaborate how liberal or restrictive transfusion can affect clinical outcomes in myocardial infarction patients.

Level of education required (1-5)

Anyone at any level (1-5).

Recommended publications

N Engl J Med. 2023 Dec 28;389(26):2446-2456. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2307983. Epub 2023 Nov 11.
JAMA. 2023 Nov 21;330(19):1892-1902. doi: 10.1001/jama.2023.12914.
JAMA. 2021 Feb 9;325(6):552-560. doi: 10.1001/jama.2021.0135.
https://www.agreetrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/AGREE-II-Users-Manual-and-23-item-Instrument-2009-Update-2017.pdf

Target audience

Blood bankers (physicians, technicians etc), transfusion practitioners, all health care workers ordering/administering blood product.

The speaker

Yujung Jung

Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology; Assistant Medical Director, Bloodworks Northwest

2018 – 2022 Residency, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA.

2022 – 2023 Fellowship, Transfusion Medicine/Blood Bank, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington/Bloodworks Northwest/Seattle Childrens’ Hospital

The moderator

Monica B. Pagano

Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington

Adjunct Professor Medicine (Hematology), University of Washington

Medical Director, Transfusion Services University of Washington Medical Center

Division Head, Transfusion Medicine, University of Washington

Katerina Pavenski

Head of the Division of Transfusion Medicine, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada

Katerina Pavenski

Head of the Division of Transfusion Medicine, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada

Dr Katerina Pavenski is the Head of the Division of Transfusion Medicine, clinical hematologist, medical director of the Therapeutic Apheresis and Patient Blood Management at St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto.

She obtained B.Sc. at the University of Manitoba (1997). She completed Doctor of Medicine degree (2001), residencies in Internal Medicine (2004) and Adult Clinical Hematology (2006) at the University of Toronto.

She completed a residency in Transfusion Medicine at the McMaster University, Hamilton (2008).

She joined St. Michael’s in 2009. She is an associate professor in the Department of Pathobiology and Laboratory Medicine and cross-appointed to the Department of Medicine, University of Toronto.

Her research interests include clinical transfusion medicine, patient blood management, therapeutic apheresis, and TTP/cm-HUS.

She is the Chair of the Ontario Blood Advisory Committee, member of the National Advisory Committee on Blood and Blood Products, the Chair of the Topics Committee of the ICTMG (International Collaboration for Transfusion Medicine Guidelines) and the Chair of the Local Organizing Committee for the 35th International Congress of the ISBT (the International Society of Blood Transfusion) June 2-6 2018, Toronto, Canada.