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As many College members may already know, the ABCP Autotransfusion Course has been running for over a year now. Forty students have completed the 10 week online course so far and the feedback has been very positive.
The weekly material includes Power Point lectures accompanied by topical articles allowing the student to further investigate specific areas of interest. At course completion, students undergo a three hour written examination containing multiple choice and short answer questions to confirm that the material has been adequately covered. Successful students are awarded a certificate of completion and placed on the Autotransfusion registry currently on the ANZCP website, pending the development of the new Autotransfusion website.
The clinical backgrounds of participants have been diverse (see chart) with perfusionists forming the largest group. This was no surprise when you consider that the ABCP administers the course and that ANZCP members register
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Other Anaesthetists 5%
7% Corporate
Sector 9%
Anaesthetic Technicians 14%
Theatre Technicians 17%
Perfusion News
ABCP
AUTOTR ANSFUSION
COURSE UPDATE by Andrew Lahanas, CCP.
free of charge! Most non-perfusion applicants are registered nurses or anaesthetic and theatre technicians. We have also had some anaesthetists and corporate members participate.
Although many units have autotransfusion devices, the safe application of the technology requires clinical understanding specific to the area it is being used (ie cardiac, obstetrics, tumour resections, etc) and this is where the objective of the course lies, to educate the operator in using the equipment safely and effectively within their own clinical area. We feel the course may even play a complementary role alongside the corporate sector by allowing the distributors of the devices to direct their efforts towards practical training using their specific equipment while leaving the theoretical training to us.
Chris Morley and I would like to encourage interested Gazette readers to participate in the course. Details are available on the Autotransfusion flyer in this edition.
Registered Nurses 19%
Perfusionists 29%
1 Data on file
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