Blood component production and manufacturing

Details

Title

Blood component production and manufacturing

Type

Stage Two

Module code

HLS172

Requirement

Compulsory

Module objective

By the end of the training period trainees will, in respect of blood component production and manufacturing, be able to:

• analyse, synthesise, evaluate and apply knowledge
• perform, adapt and master a range of technical and clinical skills and procedures
• demonstrate the attitudes and behaviours necessary for professional practice as a consultant clinical scientist dealing with the complexities, uncertainties and tensions of professional practice at this level.

Knowledge and understanding

By the end of the training period the trainee will be able to demonstrate the ability to analyse, evaluate and synthesise relevant knowledge and its application to their professional practice in relation to the

• component preparation (including approaches to irradiation, leucodepletion and component pathogen inactivation and the process of cellular storage injury)
• plasma fractionation
• manufacture of diagnostic reagents
• provision of tissues, stem cells and cellular therapeutics for clinical use.

Technical and clinical skills

By the end of the training period the trainee will be able to demonstrate a critical understanding of current relevant research, theory and knowledge and its application to the performance, adaptation and mastery of the following technical procedures and laboratory skills:

• understand the methods used for component preparation and is capable of performing the processes
• understand the basis of plasma fractionation, the range of products it can provide
• understand the basis of transfusion diagnostics manufacture, the range of products it can provide
• understand the basis of tissue and cell banking, the range of products it addresses.