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Nancy Bergeron

Back to the Precision BioLogic booth at the June 17–18 LABCON exhibit in Charlottetown, with Nancy Bergeron, MA, MLS, from the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ontario Institute of Technology.

Weak DRVVT Results

From Tom Exner, Haematek: Hope you had a good 4th of July… Thanks very much for including me sometimes in your interesting online discussions. This time I have an issue on which I would appreciate your advice and possible comments from others if you think it might be suitable for your online interest group. Regarding […]

Undergrad Hemostasis Education

This June 29, 2016 note was posted by Patricia Boyer, MS, MLS, Program Director, Zablocki VAMC School of Medical Technology to the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science educators bulletin board: I am working on my hemostasis curriculum, and I was wondering how many instructors teach coagulation using the multicomponent complexes–specifically the tenase and prothrombinase complexes concepts. This is my second year […]

Arterial Thrombosis

Aspirin Alone for AFIB

A June 24 Heartwire article in Medscape reports on the National Cardiovascular Disease Registry (NCDR) Practice Innovation and Clinical Excellence (PINNACLE) study. The study shows that 40% of participants with a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 2 or higher were treated with aspirin alone. Click here to read the article.

Antiplatelet Therapy

Monitoring DOAC to UFH Change

Correspondence between Lawrence “Lance” Williams III, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Hospital Special Coagulation Director and Michael Laposata, MD, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston Pathology Director: Dr. Laposata, I am curious if you might have some insight on an issue we are having at UAB. We have noticed an increase in patients […]

Anticoagulant Therapy

CLMA Alabama Chapter Meets August 16

Aydrian Miles and Marquita Robinson announce an all-day August 16 Clinical Laboratory Management Association, Alabama Chapter seminar at the Children’s Hospital of Alabama Bradley Lecture Center, hosted by CHA laboratory director Gisele Baskin, MT (ASCP). George will speak on Managing Hemophilia Therapy, From Rasputin to Recombinants, 10:35–11:45, and will discuss the recently approved extended half-life […]

Textbook Winner Stacey Lacey

Stacey Lacey, MLS, St. John Regional Hospital, New Brunswick, won our LABCON 2016 grand prize, Keohane EM, Smith LJ, Walenga JM. Rodak’s Hematology; Clinical Principles and Applications, Elsevier, 2016. Stacey was not present to receive her prize, however her St. John colleague, Susan Findlater, author of Findlater SH. Usefulness of cumulative summation of differences method […]

Donna Brodhagan Wins Atlas

Here is George in the PBI booth with Donna Brodhagen, MLS, Stratford General Hospital, winner of Rodak BF, Carr JH. Clinical Hematology Atlas, 5th Edition 2016. This photo was taken by Elaine Benoit in the LABCON 2016 exhibit in beautiful Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

LABCON with Anne of Green Gables

Here are Margaret and George Fritsma in the Precision BioLogic Inc. booth with Charlottetown resident, Anne of Green Gables.

Jennifer Chambers Wins Quick Guides

We are in Charlottetown, PEI, where yesterday Precision BioLogic Inc., represented by Elaine Benoit and Shauna McGraw, held a drawing for a series of our AACC Press Quick Guides, including Marques MB, Fritsma GA, Quick Guide to Hemostasis, Third Edition, and Williams LA, Marques MB, Fritsma MG. Quick Guide to Transfusion Medicine, Second Edition. Our […]

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George Fritsma is a medical laboratory scientist, educator, and author. George is a member of the International Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis, the International Society for Laboratory Hematology, and the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science.

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