PBM Masterclass

PEDIATRIC PATIENT BLOOD MANAGEMENT MASTERCLASS
Optional Pre-Conference Offering, through accepted application only.
Thursday, May 1, 2025, 8AM-5:30PM

This interactive and hands-on masterclass/workshop is designed to cover current evidence-based best practice guidelines for pediatric patient blood management (PBM) including multimodal strategies to manage the bleeding neonate, infant, child and adolescent. Management of anemia, benefits and risks of blood component transfusion, indications for coagulation factor concentrates, guidelines to treat massive hemorrhage, utility of point of care testing, and review of basic blood banking for the pediatric anesthesiologist will be covered. This Pediatric PBM masterclass, has been revised and expanded from 2023 first in-person masterclass offered at the PPACC course. Contemporary PBM and optimal blood use (OBU) strategies and practical case scenarios will be discussed with international experts in the field. Hands-on stations will demonstrate useful blood management strategies and monitoring equipment including Viscoelastic testing (for beginners and advanced practitioners). Content is continually being updated and improved from previous year providing new evidence-based scientific strategies to improve clinical practice pertaining to PBM, OBU, anemia, bleeding and hemostatic management. Leaders or potential future leaders in the field of pediatric PBM will be invited to apply as participants in this one day masterclass/workshop presented by national and international experts in pediatric PBM.

To be considered for acceptance, please complete the required APPLICATION. Accepted applicants will receive complimentary Masterclass tuition. Scholarships available to assist with travel costs. Email to inquire.

Deadline for Applications: February 1, 2025

Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, the learner should be able to:

• Discuss and apply practical evidence-based patient blood management strategies including massive hemorrhage protocols for the bleeding neonate, infant, child and adolescent in cardiac and non-cardiac surgery, critical care and trauma settings.
• Describe the risk and benefits of blood component transfusion in pediatric patients and apply useful strategies to guide decision-making towards improving patient-centered outcomes through blood conservation.
• Discuss new concepts pertaining to individualized restrictive transfusion strategies, massive hemorrhage protocols, antifibrinolytics, cell-salvage, viscoelastic testing, optimal blood use, indications for coagulation factor concentrates and blood banking basics
• Summarize and apply the steps to design a PBM program including harnessing health administrative data and dashboards to guide quality improvement initiatives

Director

Susan Goobie, MD FRCPC
Senior Associate in Perioperative Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School

Contact Info for questions: Kimberly Manning, Course Manager AnesthesiaConference@childrens.harvard.edu