DTM improves safety of platelet transfusions at NIH Clinical Center
The Clinical Center Department of Transfusion Medicine (DTM) prepared the first pathogen reduced apheresis platelets at NIH and transfused them to a patient in the Intensive Care Unit. The CC became the first hospital in the U.S. to collect, prepare and transfuse pathogen reduced apheresis platelets.
Rare Disease Day features patients’ voices, international collaboration
On Feb. 29, Leap Day, the Clinical Center and the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences hosted the 2016 Rare Disease Day at NIH. The event, which took place worldwide, is aimed at educating policymakers and the public about rare diseases and their impact on patients’ lives. The event drew more than 500 attendees, a record high.
Professor presents on “The Digital Doctor,” patient safety
Dr. Robert Watcher visited the NIH and presented a Contemporary Clinical Medicine: Great Teachers Lecture on “The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age.” Watcher, a professor and Interim Chair in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, is a well-known leader in academic medicine for his contributions to patient safely and for his role in the development of the “hospitalist” concept in the U.S. March 2016Read the complete edition onlineView past issuesIN THIS ISSUE:
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