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e-Learning Blood Transfusion

e-learning training course for Blood Transfusion

60 minutes (Note: This is based on the amount of video content shown and is rounded off. It does not account in any way for loading time or thinking time on the questions).
This course is ideal for
anyone who requires knowledge on maintaining the quality and safety of blood products.

Course Aims

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.

Course Content

  • The quality and safety of blood products
  • Multi-disciplinary collaboration 
  • Blood safety and quality regulations 2005
  • Safe transfusion practice
  • Anatomy and physiology of blood
  • Full cycle
  • Standard safety checks
  • Adverse clinical incidents
  • The equipment required

Entry Requirements

Recommended System Requirements
  • Browser: Up to date web browser
  • Video: Up to date video drivers
  • Memory: 1Gb+ RAM
  • Download Speed: Broadband (3Mb+)