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 Dayhttps://www.podcastics.com/podcast/episode/s2e8-world-hemophilia-day-72341/
- S2E4 - How to determine factor levels in hemophilia?https://www.podcastics.com/podcast/episode/s2e4-how-to-determine-factor-levels-in-hemophilia-62593/
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