Welcome to Ask Stago, The Podcast dedicated to provide expert answers to your expert questions in coagulation. In today’s episode, our guest Evelyne Escarmant will help us to understand what is behind the recent update of ISO 15189 and what it means for us as manufacturers and indeed the clinical laboratory Literature sources:  ISO 15189; Medical laboratories – Requirements for quality and competence   Content is scientific and technical in nature. It is intended as an educational tool...

Welcome to Ask Stago, The Podcast dedicated to provide expert answers to your expert questions in coagulation. In today’s episode, our guest Florence Crépet will help us to understand what is behind the wording “limit of blank”, “limit of detection” and “limit of quantification”, and what it means for the clinical laboratory Literature sources: Armbruster DA, Pry T. Limit of blank, limit of detection and limit of quantitation. Clin Biochem Rev. 2008 Aug;29 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):S49-52. CLSI....

Welcome to Ask Stago, The Podcast dedicated to provide expert answers to your expert questions in coagulation. In this episode, to coincide with International Womens Day (March 8th), we are focusing on Gender equality in the workforce, why this is good for business and good for society overall. We meet with Eva Ohlsson Desormonts, Group HR Director for Stago and Amandine Serret International Business Support and Communications Director for Stago as well as an Executive Coach. Literature...

Welcome to Ask Stago, the Podcast dedicated to provide expert answers to your expert questions in coagulation. In today’s episode, we are delighted to speak to April Matera. April experienced a stroke at the age of 39 and from there began her journey towards an anti-phospholipid syndrome diagnosis. Unfortunately it took 7 different visits to 7 different doctors to get her there. She tells us here about her APS road and how it has impacted her life and her dream to have a family.   Content...

Welcome to Ask Stago, the Podcast dedicated to provide expert answers to your expert questions in coagulation. In this series of our new season we will be covering Womens’ health and looking at the broader implications of coagulation and then speaking to a Lupus patient advocate on the impact this disease has had for her personally. To start off, in today episode, we are delighted to speak to our Clinical Development Director, Dr Francois Depasse about the broader connection between Womens’...

Welcome to Ask Stago, The Podcast dedicated to provide expert answers to your expert questions in coagulation. In today’s episode, our guest Professor Romaric Lacroix will explain us how fibrinolysis is important to the whole hemostasis process and how the sample fibrinolytic activity needs to be evaluated and sometimes monitored. Link to previous podcasts: S1E15 – Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC) and fibrin related...

Welcome to Ask Stago, the Podcast dedicated to provide expert answers to your expert questions in coagulation. In today’s episode, our guest Tom Childs will help us to understand the goal and clinical benefits of the Factor parallelism method.   Link to previous podcasts: S1E11 – How to be more productive (part 1): implementation of a rules enginehttps://www.podcastics.com/podcast/episode/10-how-to-be-more-productive-part-1-implementation-of-a-rules-engine-37749/   S2E8 - World Hemophilia...

Welcome to Ask Stago, The Podcast dedicated to provide expert answers to your expert questions in coagulation. In today’s episode, our guest Gabrielle Pearl will explain us the particularities of thrombosis and hemostasis in pediatric population, and how to manage pediatric patient samples in the clinical laboratory. Link to previous podcasts: S2E5 - How to collect and prepare the coagulation samples properly? S2E3 - How to establish and control the reference range of my...

Welcome to Ask Stago, the podcast dedicated to provide expert answers to your expert questions in hemostasis. In today episode, our expert Lydie Nicoud, R&D reagent manager, will talk with us about the test of fibrinogen.  As usual, don’t forget to send any question you may have to [email protected], we will be glad to answer to it. Literature sources: Miesbach W, Schenk J, Alesci S, Lindhoff-Last E, Comparison of the fibrinogen Clauss assay and the fibrinogen PT derived method in...

Welcome to Ask Stago, The Podcast dedicated to provide expert answers to your expert questions in coagulation.   In today’s episode, our guest Dr Bryan G Fry, aka Venom Doc, will make us enter his world and understand how venom interact with coagulation and how they can prove useful for assay or drug design & development     Literature sources: Fry BG, Roelants K, Champagne DE, Scheib H, Tyndall JD, King GF, Nevalainen TJ, Norman JA, Lewis RJ, Norton RS, Renjifo C, de la Vega RC....

Welcome to Ask Stago, the Podcast dedicated to provide expert answers to your expert questions in coagulation. In today’s episode, our guest François Depasse will help us to understand the hemostasis results obtained along pregnancy, what are the related difficulties for the lab and Link to previous podcasts: S1E15 Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC) and fibrin related markers: S2E1 Whole Blood Viscoelastic Testing (VET) Literature sources: Szecsi PB, Jørgensen M, Klajnbard...

Welcome to Ask Stago, The Podcast dedicated to provide expert answers to your expert questions in coagulation. In today’s episode, our guest Sophie Réhault will give us explanations on what is the new EU IVD regulation and what it implies both for IVD manufacturers and for the clinical laboratories.  Link to previous podcasts:  S2E18 – Practical check list of the implementation of an instrument in your lab:  S3E4 – All you need to know about instrument validation:    Literature...

Welcome to Ask Stago, The Podcast dedicated to provide expert answers to your expert questions in coagulation. In today’s episode, our guest Daniel Pilbeam, from the Clinical Pathology Laboratory at UVet in Melbourne will help us understand the common points and differences between veterinary and human hemostasis, and what should be critically assessed.   Previous episodes in relation to the topic:  AskStago episode #9 (season 1): How to manage HIL samples in the coagulation...

Welcome to Ask Stago, the podcast dedicated to provide expert answers to your expert questions in coagulation. In today’s episode, our guest Kaitlyn Pelc will explain further the different steps to validate an instrument at the installation. Previous episodes in relation to the topic: S2E18 – Practical check list of the implementation of an instrument in your...

Welcome to Ask Stago, the podcast dedicated to provide expert answers to your expert questions in hemostasis. In today’s episode, our guest David Courtois will explain further what is platelet aggregometry, how to measure it and in which indications it is useful.   Literature sources: Born GVR. Aggregation of blood platelets by adenosine disphosphate and its reversal. Nature 1962; 194: 927 – 929. O’Brien JR. Platelet aggregation. II. Some results from a new method of study. J Clin Pathol...

Welcome to Ask Stago, the podcast dedicated to provide expert answers to your expert questions in hemostasis. In today episode, our expert Charlotte Parent, Marketing product manager, will talk with us about the EQA. A valuable tool to ensure the quality of laboratory results. As usual, don’t forget to send any question you may have to [email protected], we will be glad to answer to it.   Literature sources: Ask Stago season 1 episode 3: eIQC and EQA: benefits and differences ...

Welcome to Ask Stago, the podcast dedicated to provide expert answers to your expert questions in hemostasis. In today episode, our expert guest, Dr Caroline Vayne from Tours University Hospital in France, gives us an overview on heparin induced thrombocytopenia. As usual, don’t forget to send any question you may have to [email protected], we will be glad to answer to it.   Learn more: Gruel Y, Vayne C, Rollin J, Weber P, Faille D, Bauters A, Macchi L, Alhenc-Gelas M, Lebreton A, De Maistre...

Welcome to Ask Stago, The Podcast dedicated to provide expert answers to your expert questions in coagulation. In today’s episode, our co-host Audrey Carlo will share her understanding on what is HTA and why Value of Diagnostic Information should be further recognized. Literature sources: Wurcel V, Cicchetti A, Garrison L, Kip MMA, Koffijberg H, Kolbe A, Leeflang MMG, Merlin T, Mestre-Ferrandiz J, Oortwijn W, Oosterwijk C, Tunis S, Zamora B. The Value of Diagnostic Information in...

Welcome to Ask Stago, The Podcast dedicated to provide expert answers to your expert questions in coagulation.  In today’s episode, our expert Pauline Vasselon, US & Projects Registration Coordinator within Stago Market Access team, will provide us the key steps to implement a new instrument in your laboratory.    Literature sources:  ISO 15189 Medical laboratories — Requirements for quality and competence  ISO 22870:2010 Intelligent transport systems — Devices to aid...

Welcome to Ask Stago, the podcast dedicated to provide expert answers to your expert questions in hemostasis. In today episode, our expert guest, Dr Stephan Moll, will give a hint of his webinar entitled “The Patient with Venous Thrombosis – Practical Points for the Laboratorian and the Clinician”. As usual, don’t forget to send any question you may have to [email protected], we will be glad to answer to it. Learn more: Detailed DVT/PE brochure for patients: Moll S, Waldron B. DVT and PE:...

Welcome to Ask Stago, the podcast dedicated to provide expert answers to your expert questions in hemostasis.  In today episode, our expert guest, Jonathan Douxfils, CEO at QUALIblood SA and Professor at the University of Namur / Department of Pharmacy, will detail with us the current recommendation on how to measure direct oral anticoagulants and in which clinical situation this information is relevant and useful..   As usual, don’t forget to send any question you may have to...

Welcome to Ask Stago, the podcast dedicated to provide expert answers to your expert questions in haemostasis.  In today episode, our expert Arnaud Rouvière, Global process – Service manager, will provide us all the current recommendations to establish your Quality control ranges.   As usual, don’t forget to send any question you may have to [email protected], we will be glad to answer to it.    Learn more  - Previous mentioned podcast  : Previous episode with Arnaud Rouvière : S1E7 How to...

Welcome to Ask Stago, the podcast dedicated to provide expert answers to your expert questions in hemostasis.  In today episode, our expert guest, Laure Morimont, Project leader at QUALIblood SA, will detail with us the current knowledge on thrombotic risk under hormonal therapy and how this can be assessed.    As usual, don’t forget to send any question you may have to [email protected], we will be glad to answer to it.  Learn more ⬇️ Literature sources:  de Bastos  M, Stegeman  BH,...

Welcome to Ask Stago, the podcast dedicated to provide expert answers to your expert questions in haemostasis.  In today episode, our co-host Cécile Hourquet, Product Line Manager for eSolutions and services, will come to talk about the digitalization of the laboratories.    As usual, don’t forget to send any question you may have to [email protected], we will be glad to answer to it.    Content is scientific and technical in nature. It is intended as an educational tool for laboratory...