Dianne P. Kitchen

Lead Scientist POC
UK NEQAS BC

Mrs Dianne Kitchen Msc has worked for UK NEQAS for Blood Coagulation for more than 20 years with special emphasis on Point of care tests for blood coagulation. She organises the POC INR testing programme which has over 3800 deivces enrolled. other POC programmes that are provide by UK NEQAS BC are for D-dimer testing, ACT testing and thromboelastography and thromboelastometry.

Presentation(s):

• OC 17.5 - Direct Oral Anti-Coagulant (DOAC) external quality assessment (EQA) scheme assay results and interpretations from UKNEQAS BC DOAC Survey 19 2021.

  Sunday, July 10, 2022
  11:45 AM – 12:00 PM

• PB1075 - Discrepant results for ADAMTS13 assays with different activity assays. Artefact or cause for concern?

  Tuesday, July 12, 2022
  6:30 PM – 7:30 PM

• PB1079 - Effect of anti -factor Xa direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) on viscoelasticity measurements in External Quality Assessment (EQA) samples: UK NEQAS BC experience

  Tuesday, July 12, 2022
  6:30 PM – 7:30 PM