ImmunohaematologyLaajuus (3 ECTS)

Objective

Students explain the significance of transfusion medicine as part of the overall treatment of patients and justify the significance of pre-analytical factors to tests relating to transfusion medicine. They know how to perform the most common immunohaematological tests and justify their significance to treatment of patients. Students describe the operations of a blood centre and apply quality control in their actions.

Content

Basic concepts of immunohaematology; blood centre operations as a whole; ABO and Rh blood group systems and other clinically significant systems; the most common blood group antibodies and their clinical significance; blood centre quality systems; blood products; safety and adverse effects of transfusions; taking samples for blood grouping and cross-matching and performing the most common transfusion tests using tube and column agglutination techniques.

Qualifications

Prerequisites: Anatomy, Physiology and Pathophysiology; Cell Biology and Genetics; Immunology; Pre-analytics and Customer Service; Laboratory Techniques, Supplies and Working Methods

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Students explain the significance of transfusion medicine as part of the overall treatment of patients and justify the significance of pre-analytical factors to tests relating to transfusion medicine. They know how to perform the most common immunohaematological tests and justify their significance to treatment of patients. Students describe the operations of a blood centre and apply quality control in their actions.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Students explain the significance of transfusion medicine as part of the overall treatment of patients and master the basic concepts of immunohaematology and their use to a good standard.
They explain the significance of ABO and Rh blood group systems and other clinically important systems as part of blood transfusions to a good standard.
Students identify clinically significant blood group antibodies and explain their significance to blood transfusions to a good standard.
They justify the significance of the pre-analytical factors of compatibility test samples and perform, justify and assess compatibility tests relating to transfusion medicine reliably, using different methods, and explain factors relating to the quality system of a blood centre and the clinical significance of tests.
Students explain the operations of the Blood Service in connection with production of blood products and laboratory tests and safety of transfusions.
They are able to identify the most common blood products and their applications, explain the adverse effects of transfusions to a good standard and report them as required in each particular case.
Students assess the reliability and urgency of results and report the results to the care unit.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Students explain competently the significance of transfusion medicine as part of the overall treatment of patients and master the basic concepts of immunohaematology and their use to an excellent standard.
They explain the significance of ABO and Rh blood group systems and other clinically important systems as part of blood transfusions to an excellent standard.
Students identify clinically significant blood group antibodies and explain their significance to blood transfusions to an excellent standard.
Students justify the significance of pre-analytical factors to compatibility test samples to an excellent standard. They perform, justify and assess compatibility tests relating to transfusion medicine competently and reliably, using different methods, and explain factors relating to the quality system of a blood centre and the clinical significance of tests to an excellent standard.
Students explain the operations of the Blood Service in connection with production of blood products and laboratory tests and safety of transfusions to an excellent standard and are able to identify the most common blood products and their applications competently.
They explain the adverse effects of transfusions to an excellent standard and report them as required in each particular case.
Students assess the reliability and urgency of results competently and report the results to the care unit.