1. When preparing your PowerPoint presentation, please use Microsoft. Most PowerPoint presentations will be made in a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels. All video/data projectors (beamers) at the Congress can visualize these resolutions without a problem. Use standard Windows fonts only, .24 font size can be read easily. Accepted picture file formats: .JPG, .GIF, .TIFF, .BMP, .HTML. Accepted audio formats: MPEG2 standard resolutions, QuickTime 6 or earlier version, Real player 5 or earlier version.
2. To ensure that the presentations are well prepared, we strongly advice you to bring your presentation to the Speaker Ready Room on CD-Rom or USB stick and check the presentation with the preview technical staff at least 3 hours before your presentation is scheduled. You may also bring your laptop for copying your presentation to the main computer, which will be used for sending the presentations to the different meeting rooms. The use of your own laptop during your presentation is NOT possible.
3. Single-, double slide and overhead projections will NOT be offered during the XVIIth Regional Congress of the ISBT, Europe
4. Last year, we received several requests for c.v.’s from chairpersons to prepare their sessions, therefore we kindly request you to send us your c.v. on one A4 page before May 1, 2007. We will send your c.v. to the chairpersons of your session.
5. During the congress all sessions will be translated from English into Spanish. For this reason we kindly ask you to send us a (draft) copy of the text of your presentation before May 21, 2007. We will send your presentation to the interpreters in order to prepare themselves.

Concluding:

• Only PowerPoint Presentations made in Microsoft Office XP or earlier versions
• No single-, double slide and overhead projections
• No use of your own laptop during your presentation
• Come at least 3 hours before presentation time to the Speaker Ready Room when:
  • your presentation is not yet copied on the main system
  • you want to check your presentation
• May 1, 2007: deadline cv
• May 21, 2007; deadline (draft) copy of your presentation
• Do not forget to register for the XVIIth Regional Congress of the ISBT, Europe
  (www.isbt-web.org/madrid) 

PREPARING YOUR POSTER UNITS

General
Two important points to remember when preparing your poster presentation:

• Your audience should be able to see your material from a distance of 2 - 3 metres. This means that all lettering should be at least 8 mm high.
• Plan your poster so that delegates can grasp the significance of your work quickly. Number your poster units in the order you wish them to be viewed.

Title Banner
If possible, prepare a title banner to go across the top of your presentation.
The title banner should be at least 90 cm wide and should state:

• The title of the presentation
• The name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s)
   

Lettering on the banner should be at least 20 mm high.

Text on poster units
Use a clear typeface such as Helvetica or Times Roman and, if possible, a laser printer. Keep text to a minimum - ideally, no more than 15 lines of type on a regular A4 sheet.

Graphs and diagrams
Graphs and diagrams often convey more than just words, as long as they are clear and simple. Graphs and figures should be drawn with a minimum line width of 1 mm.

Colour
Colour can greatly enhance your presentation. Some suggestions:

• Use colour within diagrams.
• Paste your individual poster units onto coloured card using different colours to guide your audience through your presentation - introduction, results, conclusions, etc.

Handouts
'Handouts', photocopies of either your individual poster units or the whole presentation reduced to A4 format, are generally well appreciated by delegates.
If you wish to distribute handouts, you should prepare them beforehand and bring them with you.

WHEN YOU ARRIVE AT THE PALACIO MUNICIPAL CAMPO DE LAS NACIONES

Posters
Posters will be presented on poster boards on a daily basis. Presenters are requested to be available for discussion of their posters on the day of their presentation coffee, tea and lunch breaks. Please find the schedule underneath.

Topic
 

Monday, June 25	No’s on display
1.0 Structure and Governance of Blood Transfusion Services	P-001 – P-011
2.1 Donors and Blood Donation - Recruiting and Managing Donors	P-012 – P-073
2.2 Donors and Blood Donation - Rare donor programmes	P-073 – P-078
3.1 Haemapheresis – Donors	P-079 – P-097
3.2 Haemapheresis – Therapeutic	P-098 – P-110
3.3 Haemapheresis - Thrombotic Thrombcytopaenic Pupura (TTP)	P-111 – P-114
4.0 Blood Processing	P-115 – P-158
5.0 Plasma Derivatives and Fractionation	P-159 – P-164
6.0 Blood Safety-Transfusion Transmitted Disease (TDD)	P-165 – P-166
6.1 Blood Safety-Transfusion Transmitted Disease (TTD) - HIV	P-167 – P-178
6.2 Blood Safety-Transfusion Transmitted Disease (TTD) - Hepatitis	P-179 – P-234
6.3 Blood Safety-Transfusion Transmitted Disease (TTD) - Parasites	P-234 – P-244
6.4 Blood Safety-Transfusion Transmitted Disease (TTD) - Bacterial Contamination	P-245 – P-267
Tuesday, June 26
6.5 Blood Safety-Transfusion Transmitted Disease (TTD) - Nucleic Acid Amplification Technology (NAT)	P-268 – P-296
7.0 Pathogen Reduction/Inactivation	P-297 – P-322
8.1 Immunohaematology - Red Cell Immunology	P-223 – P-381
8.2 Immunohaematology - Platelet Immunology	P-382 – P-390
8.3 Immunohaematology - Granulocyte Immunology	P-391 – P-393
8.4 Immunohaematology - Molecular Testing	P-394 – P-403
8.5 Immunohaematology - Immune Haemolytic Anaemias	P-404 – P-410
9.1 Clinical Transfusion Practice - Massive Transfusion/Resucitation	P-411 – P-414
9.2 Clinical Transfusion Practice - Pediatric Transfusion Practice	P-415 – P-425
9.3 Clinical Transfusion Practice - Blood Subsitutes	P-426 – P-431
9.4 Clinical Transfusion Practice - Criteria/Guidelines	P-432 – P-451
10.0 Transfusion alternatives	P-452 – P-463
11.0 Haemostasis	P-464 – P-479
12.0 Haemovigilance	P-480 – P-500
13.0 Quality management	P-501 – P-513
14.1 Stem Cells - Peripheral Blood and Blood Bone Marrow Progenitor Cells	P-514 – P-523
14.2 Stem Cells - Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells	P-524 - P-529
14.3 Stem Cells - Cellular Therapies	P-530 – P-533
15.0 Tissue Banking	P-534 – P-535
16.0 Blood Inventory Management	P-536 – P-543
17.0 Emerging Technologies	P-544 – P-553
18.0 Evidence Based Transfusion Medicine	P-554 – P556
19.0 Education in Transfusion Medicine	P-557 – P-562
21.0 Various	P-563 – P564

Poster mounting
Please mount your poster on the above mentioned day, between 08:00 and 10:00 hours. The number of your poster can be found in the final programme and/or abstract book which will be handed over to upon registration. There is a poster desk in the poster area. The staff at this desk can help you as well. Assistance and material for mounting the posters (tape, blue tack, etc.) will be available during these periods. Setting-up a poster generally takes at least 15 minutes.

Removing your poster material
Material should be taken on the day of your presentation before 18:00 hours. according the above mentioned schedule. Material that has not been taken down by the author(s) in time will be removed and destroyed.

Responsibility for poster presentations
The Organising Committee does not assume any responsibility for material displayed on the poster boards.

Registration
You should register at the Registration Desk, located near the entrance, upon arrival at the Palacio Municipal.

Queries
If you have any queries concerning the procedures, please contact the Congress Secretariat:
Eurocongres Conference Management,
E-mail: isbt.madrid@eurocongres.com 

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