Hematology Clinical Clinic

PRACTICAL WORKSHOPS

Date: 10-11.05.2025
Location: Gdansk, Hotel Grano
Presenters:
Dr. Katarzyna Mróz, vet., specialist in dog and cat diseases, hematologist
vet. Magdalena Cymerman, veterinary laboratory diagnostics specialist, hematologist

✓ The workshops are intended for veterinarians, veterinary technicians and 5th and 6th year veterinary students.
✓ The cost of participation includes: participation in the theoretical and practical training on Saturday and Sunday, unlimited access to hot and cold drinks during the training, refreshments during coffee breaks, lunch, training materials in paper form.
✓ Practical part:
- learning how to make proper smears and stains
- microscopic evaluation of hematological preparations from healthy and sick patients
- interactive part: joint analysis of clinical cases by presenters and participants
✓ We reserve the right to cancel the workshop if a minimum of 10 participants is not met.
✓ Each participant will receive a training completion certificate and educational points.

Program

Saturday:
Laboratory test results - why do they look so different and what does this mean - how to interpret the results?
● Analyzers and differences in results
● parameters in morphology - basic and additional - clinical significance
● histograms and scatter plots

Smears - how to handle it technically and what can we see under the microscope?
● slides/ dyes/ techniques
● Microscopic evaluation - basic and more advanced leukogram
assessment of cellular changes
● practical classes on smears

Platelets/leukocytes and erythrocytes clinically, i.e. all the most common problems
found in clinical practice
● anemia and polycythemia
- classifications and causes
- diagnostic diagrams
- details - characteristic changes and their role in diagnostics
- clinical significance - impact on therapeutic decisions
● Thrombocytopenia and thrombocytopenia
- division of platelet changes
- diagnostic diagrams
- clinical significance - impact on therapeutic decisions
● leukocytosis and leukopenia
- changes in the granulocyte/lymphocyte/monocyte series
- clinical significance - influence on therapeutic decisions
● Microscopic evaluation of smears (practical classes)

Sunday
Additional tests in hematology - when, what and how?
● biochemical parameters from the perspective of a hematologist in patients with anemia and not only
● hormones and their importance in hematology
● rapid diagnostic tests and their importance (when and what)
● Coombs test/ANA and other immunology tests
● stool and urine tests - what is important in hematology
● smears in the context of greater knowledge resources - microscopic evaluation of hematological patients (practical classes)

Hematologist's First Aid Kit
● what medications?
● what supplements?
● when?
● in what doses and for how long?
● easy and difficult therapeutic topics - recommendations and individualization in treatment

Hematology brainstorming clinical case discussion from A to Z (practical)
● clinical cases leading
● clinical cases of participants
● evaluation of smears