Principles of Immunohematology II

2.0 credits

This is a 30 hour didactic course that provides the cognitive foundation required for students tocompetently apply the scientific principles of immunohematology to the practice of clinical laboratoryscience. This is the second course in a series of two immunohematology courses in the program.The first unit consists of blood group terminology, laboratory methods of detection and identification of antibodies, including: the antibody screen; antibody detection; resolving antibody identification; direct antiglobulin techniques & elution methods; antibody titration; and providing compatible blood products . Pretransfusion testing is also covered in relation to: compatibility testing protocols; selection of appropriate donor units;crossmatch testing; and pretransfusion testing in special circumstances. The second unit is on donor screening and component preparation techniques, governing agencies, whole blood collection, donor reactions, plasma derivatives; & transfusion practices of blood products.Unit three is on the adverse effects of blood transfusion: transfusion related adverse events and neonatal transfusions. Hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn; the HLA system and autoimmune hemolytic anemias Interpretationsof data, problem solving, and quality assurance in addition to other real world aspects of the bloodbank and transfusion medicine laboratory are integrated throughout the course content. This course is located at SMH.