Ask Stago (english version)

Welcome to Ask Stago, the weekly podcast for Hemostasis laboratory professionals. This week, with our expert Frédéric Brutto, product line manager, Cécile Hourquet and Audrey Carlo will question HIL interferences and how the coagulation laboratory can handle them.   Sources:   Lippi G et al., Interference of blood cell lysis on routine coagulation testing. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2006;130(2):181-4  W...

Welcome to Ask Stago, the weekly podcast for Hemostasis laboratory professionals   In today’s episode, with Lydie Nicoud, Director of Design and Biological Applications development, Cécile Hourquet and Audrey Carlo will try to better understand  sensitivity and specificity of a diagnostic test , through some examples.  Sources:   CLSI, Quantitative D-dimer for the Exclusion of Venous Thromboemboli...

Welcome to Ask Stago, the weekly podcast for Hemostasis laboratory professionals.   In today’s episode, we will provide you our best tips and tricks to calculate the mean normal prothrombin time for INR assay .  To do so, Cécile Hourquet and Audrey Carlo are pleased to welcome Arnaud Rouvière, Manager of the International Application Engineer team of Stago.   Source:  WHO technical report series ;...

Welcome to Ask Stago , the Podcast providing expert answers to your expert questions.   In today’s episode, our cybersecurity referent  Alexandre Rousseaux will explain us how cybersecurity is impacting lab practices every day and why we are all talking about it .  Follow us on LinkedIn In or Twitter --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

Welcome to Ask Stago, The Podcast dedicated to provide expert answers to your expert questions in coagulation.  Today episodes are broadcasted from October 13, which is the World Thrombosis Day . Our episodes are thus dedicated to raise awareness about thrombosis symptoms and management, through the interview of 3 “thrombosis survivors”:  Debra Bryant , honorable mention recipient of the WTD 2020...

Welcome to Ask Stago, The Podcast dedicated to provide expert answers to your expert questions in coagulation.  Today episodes are broadcasted from October 13, which is the World Thrombosis Day . Our episodes are thus dedicated to raise awareness about thrombosis symptoms and management, through the interview of 3 “thrombosis survivors”:  Debra Bryant , honorable mention recipient of the WTD 2020...

Welcome to Ask Stago, The Podcast dedicated to provide expert answers to your expert questions in coagulation.  Today episodes are broadcasted from October 13, which is the World Thrombosis Day . Our episodes are thus dedicated to raise awareness about thrombosis symptoms and management, through the interview of 3 “thrombosis survivors”:  Debra Bryant , honorable mention recipient of the WTD 2020...

Welcome to Ask Stago , the Podcast providing expert answers to your expert questions.  In today’s episode, with François Depasse our Clinical Development Director, we will discuss the  selection of a cut-off for D-dimer assay in venous thromboembolism exclusion diagnosis .    Sources:   Pernod G, Maignan M, Marlu R. Questioning the use of an age-adjusted D-dimer threshold to exclude venous thrombo...

Welcome to Ask Stago , the Podcast providing expert answers to your expert questions.  In today’s episode, thanks Minh-Lan Nguyen , product line manager, we will help you to  differentiate and understand the goal of the externalized internal quality control (eIQC) and external quality assessment programs (EQA).   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

Welcome to Ask Stago , the podcast providing expert answers to your expert questions.  In this week ‘s episode with our expert François Hamon , we will provide you information about how infection with COVID-19 affects coagulation and how these coagulation abnormalities should be monitored.     Sources:   Tang N, Li D, Wang X, Sun Z. Abnormal coagulation parameters are associated with poor prognosi...

Provide guidelines about the best practices to handle samples from COVID-19 patients and answer FAQ questions from the field about general management such as preparation of sample and HIL interferences induced by COVID-19. Sources:  Wang W, Xu Y, Gao R, et al. Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Different Types of Clinical Specimens.  JAMA . 2020;323(18):1843–1844. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.3786 --------------...