This Bloodsafe eLearning Australia course will help you to identify and apply the principles of patient blood management and safe clinical transfusion practice to the care of neonates, infants, children and adolescents presenting with major haemorrhage.

This course is designed for healthcare professionals such as nurses and trainee medical officers up to registrar level. However, other clinicians may also benefit from its content.

On completion of this course you should be able to:

• describe the physiological changes experienced by children during a major haemorrhage
• apply a major haemorrhage protocol to the care of the critically injured child
• analyse laboratory tests used to guide treatment
• propose non-transfusion alternatives to minimise blood loss and optimise red cell mass
• apply appropriate transfusion strategies to the stable critical care patient