“Whether bleeding or vascular occlusion – there’s no way around the coagulation laboratory”

The section sees itself as a point of contact for research and routine in the field of hemostaseology. The work of the section aims to support colleagues in both hospital laboratories and private practice laboratories in their daily work by providing, among other things, practice-relevant work instructions for the various areas of hemostaseology.

Hemostaseology is, like hardly any other field of laboratory medicine, interconnected with almost all clinical areas and simultaneously with basic subjects such as physiology and pharmacology. In everyday practice, questions about pre-analytics (method of blood collection and necessary aids, vessels, material transport), analytics per se (internal laboratory workflow, measurement methodology), and especially post-analytics (result interpretation in close contact with senders) play a central role. The complex process of ‘coagulation’ and the resulting analytical peculiarities repeatedly present challenges for medical technical assistants and laboratory physicians or clinical chemists. Additionally, all laboratories involved in diagnostics are put to the test daily by ever-new therapeutic approaches.

Special work tasks are handled in working groups.

Activities:

• Meetings / Web or telephone conferences of the working groups
• Every two years: Symposium of the section
• Alternating with the symposium: WetLab