The BSH Guidelines Official Podcast

British Society for Haematology Annual Scientific Meeting Guidelines Session 2022   Dr Katie Hands presents on the Good Practice Paper Preoperative patient blood management during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.    Katie Hands is a Consultant Haematologist with the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) based at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee. She is a member of the British Society for Haematolo...

British Society for Haematology Annual Scientific Meeting Guidelines Session 2022   Dr Austin Kulasekararaj presents on the Myelodysplastic syndromes covering the BSH Guidelines on the diagnosis and prognosis of adult myelodysplastic syndromes and Guidelines on the management of adult myelodysplastic syndromes.   Dr Austin Kulasekararaj is a Consultant Haematologist at the King's College Hospital...

British Society for Haematology Annual Scientific Meeting Guidelines Session 2022   Dr Dima ElSharkawi presents the Guideline on the Diagnosis and Management of Waldenstrom Macroglobulinaemia.   Dr Dima El-Sharkawi is a Consultant Haematologist and part of the haematological malignancy diagnostic services at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. She is also a Trustee for the UK Charity for Walde...

Dr Nilima Parry Jones and Dr Renata Walewska present a podcast on the Guideline for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia   Both Dr Parry Jones and Dr Walewska discuss the guideline in three main parts: 1) Choice of treatment for CLL in front line and relapsed settings 2) Impact to immune dysregulation in respect of anti-microbial prophylaxis and vaccination 3) Challenges of the Covid pan...

Dr Noemi Roy and Dr Roberta Russo present a podcast on the The use of next-generation sequencing in the diagnosis of rare inherited anaemias: A Joint BSH/EHA Good Practice Paper   Dr Roy and Dr Russo discuss the good practice paper in three main parts: 1) Focus on rare anaemias: ( Diamond-Blackfan Anaemia, Congenial dyserythropoietic anaemia (CDA), Sideroblastic anaemia and Red cell membrane/catio...

Professor Peter Chiodini present a podcast on the Guidelines for the laboratory diagnosis of malaria.  Professor Chiodini will discuss the guideline by highlighting points which will be relevant to your practice, giving pointers to where one may need to seek more information and how one may be able to access help in one would like to increase expertise in this critical area. Professor Chiodini beg...

Dr Shivan Pancham and Dr Farrukh (Farrah) Shah both present a podcast on the Guidelines for the monitoring and management of iron overload in patients with haemoglobinopathies and rare anaemias.   Both Dr Pancham and Dr Shah discuss the guideline in three main parts: 1) Diagnose and complications of iron overload (Dr Shah) 2) Medications use to treat iron overload (Dr Pancham and Dr Shah) 3) Initi...

Dr Andrew Fletcher presents a podcast on the Good Practice Paper for the laboratory diagnosis of iron deficiency in adults (excluding pregnancy) and children. Dr Fletcher discusses the guideline in three main parts: 1) Laboratory investigations and testing for iron deficiency 2) Advantages and disadvantages of measuring blood counts and ferritin 3) Recommendations The laboratory diagnosis of iron...

Dr Dima El-Sharkawi presents a podcast on the Guidelines on diagnosis and management of Waldenström macroglobulinaemia Dr El-Sharkawi discusses the guideline in three main parts: 1) Presentation of diagnosis of Waldenström macroglobulinaemia 2) Treatment of Waldenström macroglobulinaemia 3) Common complications of Waldenström macroglobulinaemia Dr Dima El-Sharkawi is a Consultant Haematologist and...

Dr Christopher Fox presents a podcast on the Guidelines for the management of mature T- and natural killer-cell lymphomas (excluding cutaneous T-cell lymphoma) . Dr Fox discusses the guideline in three main parts: 1) Background and context on this diesease area; reflects on the progress that has been made over the past decade. 2) General recommendations from the guideline. 3) Specific disease area...

Prof Steve Schey presents a podcast on the Guideline on The management of Castleman disease.   Prof Schey discusses management and best outcome treatments of Castleman disease.   Professor Steve Schey is a Consultant Haematologist and Head of Myeloma Services at Kings College Hospital, London. He is one of the founding members of the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network. He is a trustee of the...

Dr Toby Eyre presents a short podcast on the Good Practice Paper Richter transformation of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia   Dr Eyre discusses the following:  1) Diagnostic work up of richter transformation 2) Current treatments available in this disorder 3) Future developments and ongoing trials   Dr Toby Eyre is a Consultant Haematologist and honorary senior lecturer at Oxford University Hospitals...

Dr Suzy Morton presents a short podcast on the Good Practice Paper: Cytomegalovirus serological testing in potential allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients.  Dr Morton discusses the following: 1) The background and importance of cytomegalovirus serological testing 2) Explaining the recommendations 3) A short summary of the importance on key messages from this good practice paper...

Dr Nilima Parry Jones introduces the podcast for the Good Practice Paper: Management of cardiovascular complications of bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitors (BTKi) . This good practice paper aims to help clinicians in recognising, understanding and appropriately managing cardiovascular complications of BTKi in order to optimise outcomes for patients. The podcast is to take the form of a question and...

Dr Keith Gomez presents a short podcast on the Guidelines for the clinical and laboratory diagnosis of heritable platelet disorders in adults and children .   Dr Gomez discusses the following: 1) Why we need this guideline now 2) Clinical assessment of heritable platelet disorders 3) Laboratory investigations of heritable platelet disorders   This guideline replaces the previous British Committee...

Dr Eugene Oteng-Ntim presents a short podcast on the Guideline on Management of sickle cell disease in pregnancy. The purpose of this guideline is to describe the management of sickle cell disease (SCD) in pregnancy in the UK. It will cover the following: preconception screening and antenatal Intrapartum and postnatal management of women with the condition. It will not cover the management of wome...

Dr Sally Killick presents a short podcast to discuss prognosis, diagnosis and management of adult MDS on the following guidelines: Guidelines for the diagnosis and evaluation of prognosis of adult myelodysplastic syndromes and Guidelines for the management of adult myelodysplastic syndromes.   Dr Sally Killick is a Consultant Haematologist at the University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust. S...

British Society Haematology Virtual Annual Scientific Meeting Guidelines Session 2021    General Haematology Presentations Question and Answer with Eugene Oteng-Ntim and Nick Cross; hosted by Jo Howard.

British Society for Haematology Virtual Annual Scientific Meeting Guidelines Session 2021   Professor Nick Cross presents the Good Practice Paper The use genetic tests to diagnose and manage patients with myeloproliferative and myeloproliferative/myelodysplastic neoplasms, and related disorders. The good practice paper has been published.   Professor Nick Cross is Professor of Human Genetics withi...

British Society for Haematology Virtual Annual Scientific Meeting Guidelines Session 2021   Dr Eugene Oteng-Ntim presents on the draft Guidelines Management of sickle cell disease in pregnancy. The guideline is now published .   Dr Oteng-Ntim is a Consultant Obstetrician and Head of Obstetrics at Guy's and St Thomas NHS Trust Foundation. He is a Honorary Reader in Women's Health (KCL) and Honorary...

British Society Haematology Virtual Annual Scientific Meeting Guidelines Session 2021    Haemostasis and Thrombosis Presentations Question and Answer with Keith Gomez and Will Lester; hosted by Jo Howard.

British Society for Haematology Virtual Annual Scientific Meeting Guidelines Session 2021 Dr Keith Gomez presents on the final draft Guidelines for the laboratory investigation of heritable disorders of platelets function. The guideline aims to be published in the next two to three months.  Dr Gomez is an Associate Professor in Haematology and Consultant Haematologist at the Royal Free London NHS...

Dr Alwyn Kotze presents a short podcast on the BSH Good Practice Paper Preoperative patient blood management during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic The focus of this good practice paper is to highlight the challenges in provision of elective surgical services while SARS-CoV-2 remains prevalent in communities. Dr Kotze discusses the good practice paper in three sections: 1) How the good practice paper is p...

Dr Jonathan Sive presents a podcast on the BSH Guidelines on the diagnosis, investigation and initial treatment of myeloma.    The objective of this guideline is to provide healthcare professionals with clear guidance on the anti‐myeloma management of patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma. In all cases, individual patient circumstances may dictate an alternative approach.   Dr Sive discus...

Dr Nilima Parry-Jones presents a podcast on the Guidelines for diagnosis and management of hairy cell leukaemia (HCL) and hairy cell variant (HCL-V) . Hairy cell leukaemia (HCL) is an uncommon, chronic B cell leukaemia, first reported as a distinct entity in the 1950s. 1 ,  2  HCL accounts for 2% of lymphoid leukaemias, with a male predominance and median age at diagnosis of 58 years. Classical HC...