AN EVENING WITH BESEDIM

Next evening: 15 May 2025 20u

AN EVENING WITH BESEDIM 4: LAB TESTING- INSIGHTS AND PITFALLS

Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask about...

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Our 4rd Besedim evening will take place on Thursday May 15th from 8 PM

Program: Chair: Said Idrissi, Gent

20h00-20h30: Recommendations for blood sampling - a look at the preanalytical phase (Luis Garcia-Castrillo Riesgo, Spain)

20h30-21h: Testing for infections & sepsis: about cultures, biomarkers and more (Cecile Meex, Liege)

21h-21h30: POCT anno 2025: advantages, pitfalls and biases - the impact of HEMOLYSIS (Pieter Vermeersch, Leuven)

Luis is an international renowned speaker and first author of the recently published joint EUSEM-EFLM recommendations on blood sampling. Pieter also participated in these guidelines as a clinical biologist. He is professor at UZ Leuven and responsible for diagnostic testing. Cecile is clinical biologist in Liege and participated in the drafting of the Belgian National Sepsis Plan Be-SNAP.

FREE FOR ALL (REGISTERED) - Accreditation applied for.

HISTORY:

An evening with BeSEDiM 1 (13/10/2023): Perspectives on triage for unplanned care (Dr Allison Gilbert, Prof Hilde Philips)

An evening with BeSEDiM 2 (11/01/2024): The now and the future of EMS dispatch 112 in Belgium (Dr Regine Zandona, Prof Patrick Van de Voorde)

An evening with BeSEDIM 3 (24/10/2024): Emergency medicine in the face of climate change (Dr. Edouard Hosten, Dr. Brecht De Tavernier, Dr. Steven Van Den Broucke, Prof. Dr. Ives Hubloue, Dr. David Grimaldi)