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Annual Meeting October 25, 2024
Every year, TTISS-ON holds an annual meeting in Toronto, ON with attendees from across the province, including physicians, transfusion safety officers, technologists, RNs, and representatives from Canadian Blood Services and plasma manufacturers. This year’s meeting will by a hybrid “virtual” and “in-person”.
This years meeting will not dissappoint! Transfusion-associated circulatory overload (TACO) is defined as acute respiratory distress, with symptoms including tachycardia, hypertension, pulmonary oedema and/or evidence of positive fluid balance occurring within 6 hours after transfusion. These reactions account for the majority of all major transfusion reactions and are sometimes queried as possible TRALIs, or TADs. TACOs typically are not reportable to Health Canada, as they are not due to blood quality or safety of the blood. However, TACOs, that meet the criteria of “serious” and/or “atypical” are to be reported in certain circumstances. This years meeting will discuss many questions and thought-provoking insights looking at th this type of reaction through new eyes. The format will be three presentations, followed by 3 interactive case reviews.
The meeting will be held at:
David Braley Health Sciences Centre, McMaster University
100 Main St W, Hamilton, ON L8P 1H6
TTISS will send out the invitation by August 30, 2024 for
Conferences
TTISS-ON is always looking for opportunities to share our work with the transfusion community. One way we connect with our colleagues is at conferences, including the Canadian Society for Transfusion Medicine (CSTM). Our past posters at CTSM have included “Comparison of Hospital Extracted Data of Transfusion Associated Adverse Events to those Reported to the Ontario Transfusion Transmitted Injuries Surveillance System” in 2019 and “Ontario’s Transfusion Transmitted Injury Surveillance System: New Tools to Reduce Complexity in Adverse Transfusion Event Reporting” in 2017.