Calendar and Fellow Hemostasis Site Update

We’ve just updated our 2014–2015 conference calendar. Also updated is our list offellow organizations with links to their sites. If your conference or organization does not appear, please provide a response below and it will be posted.

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Apr 22 2014

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Kalamazoo Direct to You

George is in Kalamazoo where he will provide four Medical Laboratory Professionals Week presentations for the American Society for Medical Laboratory Sciences- Michigan. The ASCLS-MI annual meeting, “Move Forward in ’14 with ASCLS-Michigan” is Wednesday April 23–Friday, April 25 at the Radisson Plaza Hotel, 100 West Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo. PowerPoints of each presentation are attached below. George’s presentations and times are… Thursday, April 24, […]

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Medical Laboratory Professionals’ Week

Welcome to Medical Laboratory Professionals’ Week, April 20–26. We are the hidden profession that saves lives. In celebration, we’ve added a new audio PowerPoint to our series, Hematology Case Studies: Lupus Anticoagulant Profile and Specimen Management. Continue to consult with Fritsma Factor, as we receive new and updated entries regularly.

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THSNA Thu-Sat

Please join our sponsor Precision BioLogic Inc at Booth 106 in the Thrombosis and Hemostasis Summit of North America Biennial meeting this week, Thursday, April 10–Saturday, April 12, 2014 at the Chicago Sheraton. While there, please plan to visit our posters, McGlasson DL, Fritsma GA, #53: Do We Need To Normalize the Dilute Russell Viper Venom Time Screen/Confirm Ratio?, Thursday, […]

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World Thrombosis Day October 13

Thanks to colleague Ali Sadeghi-Khomami PhD for his heads-up announcing theInternational Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis‘ World Thrombosis Day launch. World Thrombosis Day will be held annually on October 13, the birthday of Rudolph Virchow, 1821, who coined the terms embolism and thrombosis. See the ISTH World Thrombosis Day page for details.

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November NASCOLA Newsletter

With thanks for notification from Elaine Benoit, your North American Specialized Coagulation Laboratory Association (NASCOLA) November Newsletter is attached, Among many noteworthy articles, the NASCOLA newsletter features a description of Fritsma Factor. Thanks to NASCOLA for featuring us and to Precision BioLogic Inc for hosting The Fritsma Factor since 2007! November NASCOLA Newsletter

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Laboratory Testing and Standardization

With a thanks for the heads-up to Elaine Benoit, Precision BioLogic Inc, here is a fascinating retrospective on Hemophilia testing, Barrowcliffe TW, Laboratory testing and standardisation. Haemophilia 2013;19:799–804, in the November, 2013 edition of the Journal, Haemophilia, publication of the World Federation of Haemophilia. Click here for the article: Barrowcliffe: Laboratory Testing and Standardisation

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Thanks to Elaine Benoit at Precision BioLogic, our Conference Recommendation calendar is updated and ready for browsing. If you know of any event that is not on the calendar, please send George the name, sponsor, dates, and location for posting. Thank you.

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Confusing Coag Test Names

On October 16, 2013 George spoke on the subject, “Clumsy Coagulation Communication, Let’s Blame the Lab” in Seattle, Washington. One issue we discussed was confusing coagulation test names, and we talked about the kinds of erroneous orders that are generated. Here is a follow-up to the presentation, a brief list of confusing names with an explanation for each. […]

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Marshall Thompson

Dorothy (Adcock) Funk, MD, Medical Director at Colorado Coagulation, which is affiliated with LabCorp, Inc, sent along the sad news that Marshall Thompson, Special Coagulation Manager at the Burlington, NC laboratory, passed away on Tuesday, September 17. Here is a link to Mr. Thompson’s Burlington Times-News death notice. Thanks to Dr. Adcock for providing the information, and our […]

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Calendar and Fellow Hemostasis Site Update

Kalamazoo Direct to You

Medical Laboratory Professionals’ Week

THSNA Thu-Sat

World Thrombosis Day October 13

November NASCOLA Newsletter

Laboratory Testing and Standardization

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Confusing Coag Test Names

Marshall Thompson

George Fritsma MS MLS

Cheat Sheets from George

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