9-11 March 2015, Riyadh Marriott Hotel

The conference was designed to a systematic framework required to support and improve medical education transformation. The conference has facilitated opportunities for delegates to discuss, share ideas, challenges, innovations and advance postgraduate medical education through a dynamic change in residency.

Objectives

• Increase Health Professionals & public awareness of the prevalence and risks from thrombosis.
• Increase the implementation of evidence based prevention in healthcare.
• Encourage health care systems to implement strategies to ensure “BEST PRACTICES” for prevention.
• To create bridges between the clinical practice and the basic science.
• To bring together research scientists on vascular and molecular biology of many different specialties related to thrombosis and haemostasis (hematology, cardiology, neurology, internal medicine, gynecology and other disciplines.
• Standardizing nomenclature and research methods.
• Providing expert consultation services to standards-setting bodies

Theme

• Thrombosis in Pediatric/Teenager.
• Bleeding disorder in Pediatrics/Teenager.
• Cancer/Thrombosis.
• Scope of vte in the region. 
• Advance in laboratory testing of anticoagulation. 
• Routine preoperative coagulation tests: Are they necessary?
• Pregnancy and venous thromboembolism.
• Update on stroke in children.
• Changing paradigms in management of dvt.
• Spontaneous thrombosis in teenagers, investigations and treatment.
• Current approaches to anticoagulation: The oral direct inhibitors.
• Factor XIII deficiency in Saudi Arabia: Experience of a lonely patient.
• A system wide approach to vte prevention: Experience from the national vte prevention programme in england.
• Acquired coagulopathies in children.
• Bleeding and clotting in liver disease in children. 
• Solid phase assays for the diagnosis of aps. 
• Diagnosis and treatment of pregnancy – related complications of aps. 
• Antiphospholipid database:impact of ISTH guidelines in a real world setting.
• Lupus anticoagulant assessment: Role of mixing tests.
• Discussion on mixing tests in diagnostic algorithms for lupus anticoagulants.
• Discussion on mixing tests in diagnostic algorithms for lupus anticoagulants.
• Thrombin generation and the diagnosis of antiphospholipid syndrome: Review of available data and choice of method.
• New insights on the pathophysiology of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia.

Accreditation

The conference was accredited with 22 CME Hours by the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties. 

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