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 women with sickle cell trait. Updates from the previous guideline¹ include new information on pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), more comprehensive information on pre-conceptual screening and medication review, updated information on thromboprophylaxis, aspirin and vitamin D, changes to advice on antenatal care including frequency of ultrasonography (USS) scanning. It also includes reference to the most recent National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and RCOG guidelines. 

Also, this guideline was presented at the Guidelines Session at the ASM 2021 and the presentation can be found in our list of podcasts.

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 Associate Professor in Epidemiology and Population Health (LSHTM).

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. She is the chair of the Myelodysplastic syndrome (DS) clinical study group for the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI). Her area of speciality are myeloid cancers    (myelodysplastic syndromes- MDS and myeloproliferative neoplasms) and lymphoma. 

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 within Medicine at the University of Southampton and Director for Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory Salisbury.

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 Associate Professor in Epidemiology and Population Health(LSHTM).

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 Will Lester presents on the draft Guidelines on The Assessment of bleeding risk prior to surgery or invasive procedures.  The guidelines aims to be published by the end of 2021 early 2022.

Dr Lester is a Honorary Haematology Consultant at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and deputy chair of the BSH Haemostasis and Thrombosis Task Force. 

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 Foundation Trust and chair of the BSH Haemostasis and Thrombosis Task Force. He has extensive clinical experience in the management of bleeding disorders, such as haemophilia, and disorders of blood clotting (thrombosis).

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 produced and which evidence is taken in account doing so

2) How we think pandemic times have changed our pathways especially concentrating on remote working and how we believe teams can and should prioritise different aspects inherent in a patient blood management programme. 

3) Clinical subject matter pandemic specific on the following:

• management of preoperative anaemia 
• bleeding risk assessment and investigation
• medication management of trying to reduce bleeding

Dr Alwyn Kotze is a Consultant Anaesthetist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Dr Kotze's clinical practices is a mixture of organ transplantation specifically liver transplants and providing other anaesthesia for surgeries. 

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 discusses the guidelines three main focus areas:

1) Initial investigation diagnosis of myeloma 

2) Choice of treatment for myeloma 

3) Post treatment consolidation therapy 

Dr Jonathan Sive is a Consultant Haematologist and the clinical service lead for myeloma at University College London Hospital (UCLH).