# The WFSA Blood Health Innovation Award Winners

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Podcast: [TopMedTalk](https://stenobird.com/podcast/topmedtalk-410317)
Published: 2026-04-20T09:30:00+00:00
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## Resource

Our coverage of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists annual conference begins with an exclusive conversation with this year's recipients of the WFSA Blood Health Innovation Award, Vijay Anand Ismavel and Ann Miriam Devarathnam. Andy Cumpstey finds out about their collaborative project with Kerala Digital University to develop an intraoperative auto-transfusion device, designed to recycle a patient's own blood during surgery in resource-constrained environments. For more information about this device, see: https://jogs.one/icigs_1003_70/ -- Join us at Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM) World Congress 2026 in London. Be part of a global conversation as clinicians from around the world gather between 7-9th July at the British Library in London. Three days of evidence-based perioperative medicine, global insights, and expert debate—featuring speakers including Michael Marmot and Ken Rockwood . Register here - https://ebpom.org/product/ebpom-world-congress-2026/

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