Course Overview

The course starts by explaining why ensuring and maintaining the quality and safety of blood products is so important. After that, it looks at the necessity for multi-disciplinary collaboration when it comes to the transfusion of blood and how this looks in practice. Next, it covers the Blood Safety and Quality Regulations 2005 and the legal requirements these regulations pose, before turning to explore safe transfusion practice, including how each blood product must be stored.

Course Modules

The Quality and Safety of Blood Products - 70% pass required
Multi-disciplinary Collaboration - 70% pass required
Blood Safety and Quality Regulations - 2005% pass required
Blood Transfusion - 4% pass required
Blood Transfusion - 5% pass required
Blood Transfusion - 6% pass required
Blood Transfusion - 7% pass required
Blood Transfusion - 8% pass required
Blood Transfusion - 9% pass required

Requirements

System Requirements

Up to date web browser
Up to date video drivers
1GB+ RAM
Broadband (3Mb+)

Duration

60 Minutes. This is based on the amount of video content shown and is rounded off.

About This Course

The course starts by explaining why ensuring and maintaining the quality and safety of blood products is so important. After that, it looks at the necessity for multi-disciplinary collaboration when it comes to the transfusion of blood and how this looks in practice. Next, it covers the Blood Safety and Quality Regulations 2005 and the legal requirements these regulations pose, before turning to explore safe transfusion practice, including how each blood product must be stored.

Following this, the course dives into the anatomy and physiology of blood products, before working through each stage of the blood transfusion cycle, and the standard safety checks required for the handling of blood products. The course then turns to the most common and serious adverse clinical incidents related to blood transfusion and finishes by detailing the equipment required to administer a transfusion.