Expert interviews

Mrs Iman Al- Absi from the haematology department at the Bahrain Defence Force – Royal Medical Services (BDF-RMS). Bahrain Defence Force Royal Medical Services - Hospital's Health System is the region's premier healthcare delivery system, serving patients throughout Kingdom of Bahrain.

Dr Mohamed Al Zaabi is Head of Department of Haematology and Blood Bank at Khoula Hospital, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. He shares his experience with the XN-Series and how the innovative technology and performance has shifted the paradigm to support the valuable clinical importance within the general haematology laboratory.

A laboratory perspective on the diagnostic benefit of RET-He and Delta-He in the diagnosis and monitoring of inflammation and systemic bacterial infections.

A clinical perspective on the past, present and future importance of the markers Hypo-He, RET-He and Delta-He as monitoring tools of iron supply to the bone marrow in haemodialysis patients.

The XN-Series with integrated WPC channel and XN stem cell application helps in finding the ideal time for stem cell apheresis.

Dr Cohen from Geneva University Hospital speaks about how the CBC-O application helps to optimize result reporting for MCHC elevated samples in the haematology lab.

How flow cytometry improves the workflow in microbiology and allows early diagnoses as well as targeted antibiotics treatment programmes

Interview with Dr med. Peter Keller, Deputy Head of Diagnostics at the Institute for Infectious Diseases at Universität Bern in Switzerland, about his experiences with AMR.

Dr Wai-kit Ma is Head of Urology and Department of Surgery at the Princess Margaret Hospital. He outlines some first-hand experience with AMR, how important microbiologists are in the fight against AMR and some tips the general public should be aware of.

Prof. Dr Shingo Yamamoto is the Head of the Urology Department at the Hospital of Hyogo College of Medicine in Nishinomiya, Japan. He outlines the current status of AMR (antimicrobial resistance) in Japan and future measures that are needed to fight it.

H. Hermann Droest is Head of Primary Care and Essential Health at Sysmex Europe GmbH. He tell us a little bit about why the topic of Primary Care and infections plays a role in your work at Sysmex