AATB is pleased to offer a comprehensive course on the unique and sometimes challenging topic of Plasmadilution. This course will guide learners through various aspects of Plasmadilution, including terminology, rationale, case studies, algorithms, and more.

The donation and acquisition of birth tissues present a number of technical hurdles to an OTPO that already recovers cadaveric tissue for transplantation. Birth Tissue A – Z will provide an overview of birth tissue program considerations and challenges. Focusing on the essential building blocks of a successful birth tissue program, we will review aspects of the birth tissue program that differ from traditional cadaveric tissue programs. The role of physicians and hospital staff will be discussed and we will provide insight surrounding the structure and typical challenges that an OTPO can encounter when implementing a birth tissue recovery program.

This review of plasma dilution algorithms will provide professional tissue bankers with information never presented before including: When blood loss is important and when it is not; how algorithms differ depending on whether patient characteristics like gender, height, weight, and total body surface area. Attendees will have the opportunity to see how various case studies are evaluated by more than 20 different algorithms in use today.