Face to face, tutoring, distance learning

MANDATORY ATTENDANCES – LECTURES: YES

Power point

Bibliography review or

Written examination

The general purpose of the course is to introduce students to Transfusion Medicine and to enable them to plan, analyze, understand, participate in and manage all transfusion-related procedures and their application in clinical practice. Furthermore, the course seeks to provide students with the basics of Immunohematology and Hemostasis Disorders and to mobilize their interest in this subject. The specific objectives of the course are specialized in the following intended learning outcomes:

Upon successful completion of the course the student will be able to use the acquired knowledge in order to:

• have the equipment to properly manage transfusion therapy
• to approach diagnostic problems of Immunohematology
• use the appropriate equipment for the Immunohematology laboratory
• collaborate with his / her classmates to present and analyze clinical scenarios

Section 1 BLOOD AND ITS DERIVATIVES

Blood donation / Criteria for selection of blood donors

• Immunology and molecular biology of transfusion
• Blood products and preparation

Section 2 TRANSFUSION THERAPY

• Indications for administration of blood products
• Special groups of patients
• Alternative therapies-Cell therapies
• Economics of transfusion therapy

Section 3 TRANSFUSION COMPLICATIONS

• Immediate and distant complications of Transfusion Therapy
• Blood-borne diseases
• Blood vigilance

Section 4 HEMOSTASIS  DISORDERS

• Bleeding disorders and Thrombotic disorders
• Laboratory evaluation

BLOOD TRANSFUSION MEDICINE, KALLINIKOU – MANIATI ALIKI

 ISBN: 9789603941095

PRACTICAL HEMATOLOGY BAIN,BATES,LAFFAN,LEWIS ISBN: 9789607875860