Emiley Cooley Memorial Award and Lectureship: To Breathe or Not to Breathe- That is the Question- Pulmonary Consequences of Transfusion
Program Code: 9301-S
Monday, October 26, 2009
8:30 AM to 9:15 AM (ET)

MODERATOR
Harvey Alter, MD, National Institutes of Health

SPEAKERS
Mark A. Popovsky, MD, Haemonetics Corporation

DESCRIPTION
The clinical features of the pulmonary complications of transfusion-highlighting transfusion-related acute lung injury and transfusion-associated circulatory overload- will be reviewed. The
risk factors, incidence and morbidity of TRALI and TACO will be presented including the prevailing hypotheses as to the mechanism of TRALI. Strategies to reduce the frequency and severity of these reactions are to be discussed.



This award began as a lectureship in 1963 and was designated as a Memorial Award in 1983. The person who receives this award shall have demonstrated teaching ability and have made a major contribution to the field of immunohematology and transfusion medicine or cellular therapies.