Lab Diagnostics

Lab Diagnostics: Haematology

registration open

 

03.03.2025 – 07.03.2025

Online 

EURO 2.150.-*

EURO 2.050.-* (early registration deadline: 01.11.2024)

* eLibrary access is included in the course fee

 
Total hours: 40
ATF hours (Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland): TBA
ECTS credits (Master & Certificate): 5

Program Director/Principal Course Master:

Francesco Cian (DipECVCP),

Course Masters:

Dr. Paola Cazzini, DACVP (UK)
Dr. Benoit Cuq, DACVIM, PhD (FR)
Dr. Emma Hooijberg, DECVCP, PhD (ZA)
Dr. Marco Pesaresi, DVM (IT)
Dr. Barbara Rütgen, DVM, PhD (AT)

Course Overview

This online course will cover all aspects of haematology from the pre-analytical phase (sample collection, choice of instruments, quality control) to the analytical phase (blood sample analysis, blood smear preparation and examination). Large part of the course will be dedicated to the microscopic examination of all blood components (red blood cells, leukocytes, platelets) with a very practical approach, including diagnostic approach to anaemia. Day 4 will be entirely dedicated to myelo and lymphoproliferative disorders, including advanced diagnostic techniques (flow cytometry, PARR) that are often needed to confirm and/or refine a diagnosis of leukaemia. There will also be space to discuss coagulation disorders, blood typing, and transfusion medicine, which are all topics of major clinical relevance.

Similarly to the other courses, every day the participants will be presented with haematology cases to solve and digital blood smears to look at in order to put in practice what they learned during the course. Digital haematology gives you the same experience as being in front of the microscope and is the best way to learn haematology from home.

Course program (online live sessions)

Monday, 3 March 2025
09:00 – 09:30 Welcome, presentation of the course and its structure Cian
09:30 – 11:00 Pre-analytical phase, haematology analyzers, quality control,
common errors in haematology Hooijberg
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 Blood smear examination: how to make it and how to read it! Cian
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00 Red blood cell indices and morphology Cian
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30 Infectious agents in haematology Hooijberg
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
09:00 – 09:45 Regenerative anaemias Cian
09:45 – 10:30 Non regenerative anaemias Cian
10:30 – 11:00 Iron deficiency anaemia, iron status and reticulocyte indices Cazzini
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 Anaemia: Clinical approach and management in Internal Medicine Cuq
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:15 Haematology assignments
15:15 – 16:00 Haematology assignments – solutions and discussion of cases Cian
16:00 – 16:30 Q&A about red blood cells and anaemia
Wednesday, 5 March 2025
09:00 – 11:00 Leukocytes Cazzini
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:00 Platelets Cazzini
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:30 Haematology assignments
14:30 – 15:15 Haematology assignments – solutions and discussion of cases Cian
15:15 – 16:30 Blood typing and principles of transfusional medicine Cuq
Thursday, 6 March 2025
09:00 – 10:30 Lymphoid and myeloid leukaemias: classification and diagnosis Rütgen
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Advanced diagnostic tests for the diagnosis of myelo – Lymphoproliferative disorders
Flow cytometry and PARR Rütgen
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:30 Projected haematology cases Rütgen
14:30 – 15:15 Haematology assignments
15:15 – 16:00 Haematology assignments – solutions and discussion of cases Cian
16:00 – 16:30 Q&A and quizzes
Friday, 7 March 2025
09:00 – 10:30 Coagulation – From physiology to laboratory tests: what do we really know? Pesaresi
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Coagulation – From the patient to the laboratory tests: concrete approach
to clinical cases Pesaresi
12:30 – 13:45 Lunch Break
13:45 – 14:30 Q&A and quizzes
14:30 – 15:30 Haematology assignments
15:30 – 16:30 Haematology assignments – solutions and discussion of cases Cian