Course overview
This course provides you with the essential theoretical knowledge and hands-on skills to work safely and professionally as a Medical Scientist in highly specialised areas of Transfusion Medicine and Haemostasis. These disciplines play a critical role in patient care and often overlap in clinical practice.
Transfusion Medicine focuses on the safe and timely supply of blood and blood products to patients in need. You’ll learn how transfusion laboratories ensure compatibility through pre-transfusion testing, including blood grouping, antibody screening, and crossmatching—procedures that make life-saving transfusions possible.
Haemostasis involves investigating, diagnosing, and monitoring bleeding and clotting disorders. You’ll explore the mechanisms of blood clotting, disorders affecting haemostasis, and the laboratory techniques used to support accurate diagnosis and treatment.
What You’ll Study:
- Transfusion Medicine: Blood product manufacture and use; blood group systems; immunohaematology principles; pre-transfusion testing; antibody investigations; transfusion reactions; haemolytic disease of the newborn; investigation of DAT positive patients and haemolytic anaemia; haemovigilance; quality management; and ethical considerations.
- Haemostasis: Platelet function; primary and secondary haemostasis; clotting factors and pathways; fibrinolysis; anticoagulants; bleeding and thrombotic disorders; antithrombotic therapy; laboratory testing; automation; and point-of-care diagnostics.
By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped to contribute to critical laboratory services that directly impact patient outcomes.
Course learning outcomes
- Describe blood cell antigen and antibody systems
- Describe the principles and applications of antigen-antibody interactions in immunohaematology
- Perform blood cell antigen typing and antibody detection
- Describe the clinical conditions relevant to transfusion medicine
- Apply current transfusion medicine practice appropriately
- Describe current theoretical concepts of haemostasis and perform relevant laboratory testing procedures
- Explain hereditary and acquired disorders of haemostasis
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus East
Group 1
Class number 20562
Section PR01
Size 50
Available 16
Class number 29462
Section 01OL
Size 50
Available 16
Class number 20563
Section WS01
Size 50
Available 16
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