[Evaluation of continuous education in transfusion for professionals in hospitals and clinics].

Professional health workers need continuous update of knowledge in blood transfusion practice. To fulfill this expectation, the "Etablissement français du sang (E.F.

[Evaluation of Owren's thrombotest in the monitoring of treatment with antivitamin K].

The need to standardize the monitoring of oral anticoagulant treatments has led some countries to adopt, generally, Owren's Thrombotest. Apart from needing only one reagent and being perfectly adapted to this type of monitoring, the thrombotest has the advantage of being able to be used on capillary blood and venous blood and of not being influenced by the storage of the blood samples. Its disadvantages are that it is slow to perform, difficult to automate and that it has a therapeutic range which is narrow and close to the limits of precision of the technique.