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Understanding Blood Results
Day 1: Friday 16th February 2024
Day 2: Friday 8th March 2024
09:00 - 16:00
Delivered via Zoom
**YOU MUST ATTEND BOTH DAYS**
TRAINING FULLY BOOKED
OVERVIEW
Early recognition of abnormalities can avert potential life threatening or at least harmful situations.
This well established and respected two day course allows the candidate a chance to fully understand routine haematology and biochemistry results.
Attended by nurses and allied health professionals whose work involves blood investigation.
CONTENT
- Full Blood Count; parameters of the full blood count
- Haemoglobin and erythrocyte physiology; ESR, INR
- Clinical examples workshop
- Patterns in anaemia
- Differential White Cell Count
- Clinical Biochemistry
- Clinical electrolyte and water homeostasis
- Hypo and hypernatraemia
- Potassium homeostasis
- Liver function tests
- Thyroid function tests
- Clinical case studies
AIMS AND OUTCOMES
To understand -
- Routine full blood count results
- Clinical physiology of the haematological system
- Routine biochemistry tests and electrolyte and water homeostasis
- Physiology of liver and cardiac enzymes
- Clinical implications of results
ATTENDED BY
- Nurses
- Allied Health Professionals
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