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RCPA / Lifeblood Clinical Transfusion Program 2025
Lifeblood and RCPA is pleased to present the Clinical Transfusion Program for 2025. This program is a series of virtual sessions teaching basic transfusion, transfusion in practice, emergency transfusion and speciality transfusion (obstetric and paediatric), and designed to build knowledge and confidence in transfusion medicine for registrars.
All sessions are especially relevant for haematology trainees, but we welcome trainees or junior consultants from other specialties are to attend these virtual educational sessions.
The dates and topics of the schedule are as below, and in this document, and the teaching platform is accessible here.
| Module 1: Basic transfusion | Date | |
| Pretransfusion Testing | David Roxby Clinical Scientist, Australian Red Cross Lifeblood. Molecular Medicine and Pathology (Haematology/Transfusion Medicine), Flinders University |
29 May |
| Red Cells | Alex Dunn Haematologist, Epworth Geelong, Ballarat Health Service | 12 June |
| Platlets | John Casey Haematologist / Transfusion Medicine Specialist, Australian Red Cross Lifeblood | 26 June |
| Plasma | Philip Crispin Haematologist, Canberra Hospital. Chief Pathologist, ACT Pathology | 10 July |
| Transfusion Reactions | Lydia Singaraveloo Haematologist / Transfusion Medicine Specialist, Australian Red Cross Lifeblood | 24 July |
| Module 2: Transfusion in practice | ||
| Preoperative patient blood management | Kathryn Robinson Transfusion Medicine Specialist, Australian Red Cross Lifeblood Haematologist,The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Medical Advisor, SA BloodSafe Program |
7 August |
| Intraoperative patient blood management | Alex Dunn Haematologist, Epworth Geelong, Ballarat Health Service | 21 August |
| Preoperative coagulation studies and Management of a bleeding patient on anticoagulation | Andrew Vanlint Clinical Haematologist and General Physician, Medical Education Consultant, Northern Adelaide Local Health Network | 4 September |
| Module 3: Emergency transfusion | ||
| Critical bleeding | Elissa Milford Intensivist Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland Medical Officer (Intensivist), Australian Army Lisa Clarke Haematologist/Transfusion Medicine Specialist, Australian Red Cross Lifeblood, Haematologist, Sydney Adventist Hospital |
18 September |
| Visoelastic haemostat assays | Catherine Downs Specialist Cardiothoracic and Obstetric Anaesthetist, Conjoint Senior Lecturer, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health Discipline of Critical Care, Prince of Wales Hospital | 2 October |
| Module 4: Specialty transfusion | ||
| Obstetric transfusion | Lisa Clarke Haematologist/Transfusion Medicine Specialist, Australian Red Cross Lifeblood, Haematologist, Sydney Adventist Hospital | 16 October |
| Paediatric transfusion | Bryony Ross Paediatric Haematologist, John Hunter Children’s Hospital and NSW Health Pathology | 30 October |
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