Anaemia and Patient Blood Management

Overview

Course Description

Anaemia is a condition in which there is a lack of healthy red blood cells and adequate haemoglobin to carry oxygen to the body tissues. This is one of the most diagnosed conditions in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Anaemia has a number of consequences and affects almost all organs in the body including the brain, eye, heart, skins, spleen, etc. There are a lot of treatment modalities; but to understand the management of anaemia, it is important to look at the basics in erythropoiesis.

One of the other modalities in the management of anaemia in the medical and surgical patient is Patient Blood Management (PBM). The three pillars of PBM helps to avoid the use of allogeneic blood transfusion in the management of anaemia. In a resource challenged country where sometimes it is very difficult to obtain donor blood, it becomes very important to explore this very important option of developing and implementing PBM. There is the need to incorporate them into our training curriculum so that healthcare professionals become aware of them.

What you will learn

1. Back to basics in erythropoiesis
2. Pathophysiology and aetiology of anaemia
3. Consequences of anaemia
4. Diagnosis of anaemia
5. Treatment and management of anaemia
6. Definition of Patient Blood Management (PBM)
7. A look at the advantages of PBM
8. Discussion of the three pillars of PBM and the modalities/strategies of PBM
9. Examination of the clinical outcomes in the management of bloodless medicine and surgery patients
10. How PBM can be implemented
11. The role of the Pharmacist in PBM