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 children and adolescents with malignancies.

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 will be able to:

• explain the causes of anaemia in the paediatric patient with malignancy
• describe options for treatment of anaemia and appropriate transfusion practice for the anaemic child with cancer
• outline the causes of increased risk of bleeding in this patient group and apply strategies to reduce this risk