{"id":1749,"date":"2020-03-11T12:30:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T01:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2020-03-11T17:00:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T06:00:55","slug":"no-spleen-spleen-australia-gives-people-a-routine-the-value-of-clinical-registries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/2020\/03\/11\/no-spleen-spleen-australia-gives-people-a-routine-the-value-of-clinical-registries\/","title":{"rendered":"No spleen? Spleen Australia gives people a routine! The value of clinical registries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/396859817?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spleen Australia was established as the Spleen registry in 2003 by Denis Spelman and Penny Jones, from the Alfred Hospital. It is a registry and clinical service for people of all ages who do not have a functioning spleen, and aims to reduce the incidence of overwhelming sepsis. Over 10,000 patients with asplenia\/hyposplenism or after a splenic artery embolisation procedure are registered. The service is funded by state departments of health in Victoria, Tasmania and Queensland, and has strong collaborations with the paediatricians at The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A\/Prof Denis Spelman<\/strong> is Medical Director of Spleen Australia, and Head of Microbiology and Deputy Director of Department of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Health and coronavirus expert!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms Penelope Jones<\/strong>, co-founder and manager of Spleen Australia.\u00a0 Penny is also a member of the Registries Special Interest Group at Monash University Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, and is a co-host on a community medical program, Melbourne radio station \u2013 3RRR, called \u201cRadiotherapy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms Sonja Elia<\/strong> is a Nurse Practitioner and Manager of Immunisation at The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital.\u00a0 Sonja will discuss the vaccines needed by children without a functioning spleen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spleen Australia was established as the Spleen registry in 2003 by Denis Spelman and Penny Jones, from the Alfred Hospital. It is a registry and clinical service for people of all ages who do not have a functioning spleen, and aims to reduce the incidence of overwhelming sepsis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7930,7935],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-immunology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}