Nurses' Program I: Apheresis and Hemotherapy
Program Code: 109-TC
Saturday, October 23, 2004
10:30 AM to 12:00 PM (ET)

SPEAKERS
Camille Howell, RN, BSN, HP(ASCP), Puget Sound Blood Center
Sandra Martinez, RN, BS, BSN, MSN, New York Blood Center

DESCRIPTION
Nurses perform therapeutic apheresis procedures to treat many different disease processes, and therapeutic phlebotomy may be used to treat some iron metabolism disorders. Speakers will discuss the pathophysiology of two diseases processes and the corresponding treatment approaches.