Competency information
Details
Assess patients for registration onto the national transplant list and perform the tests necessary to achieve this including:
- HLA typing
- HLA antibody detection/definition
Considerations
- How to assure the quality of personal practice.
- Local protocols for the clinical and laboratory work up of patients awaiting solid organ transplantation including:
- kidney transplantation
- other organs as appropriate to the laboratory.
- National requirements for transplant patient registration
- HLA type
- HLA antibody profile
- ABO blood group
- Sensitisation history
- Policy for registration of unacceptable antigens.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 1 | Outcome Perform the clinical and laboratory work up of patients awaiting solid organ transplantation, including the interpretation and reporting of results in the correct clinical context. |