Practicals · IHBT

Immunohaematology and Blood Transfusion

135 practical items from the NMC curriculum and the NBEMS DNB curriculum, grouped by the curriculum's own sections.

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135 items

Immunohaematology - blood grouping

Weak D (Du) testing

Lab technique

Molecular diagnostics

RBC (blood group) genotyping

Lab technique

Nucleic acid extraction (manual and automated)

Lab technique

Pretransfusion testing

Electronic crossmatch

Lab technique

Immediate spin crossmatch

Lab technique

Immunohaematology

Immunohaematology - antiglobulin testing

Immunohaematology - specialised tests

Quality control

Laboratory safety

Biomedical/biohazardous waste handling and disposal

Communication / adminLevel I (DNB)

Biomedical waste disposal as per protocols (blood bank)

Communication / admin

Laboratory management

Blood inventory management

Communication / admin

Blood utilization review (audit)

Communication / admin

Donor look-back process

Communication / adminLevel II (DNB)

Hospital Transfusion Committee

Communication / admin

Blood donation

Cold chain maintenance for blood/components

Communication / adminLevel I (DNB)

Organising outdoor blood donation camps

Communication / adminLevel I (DNB)

Blood donor motivation and recruitment

Communication / admin

Phlebotomy site preparation

Procedure

Therapeutic phlebotomy

ProcedureLevel I (DNB)

Transfusion transmitted infections

Microbiology

Microbiology / Haematology

Blood donation / Haematology

Haematology

Complete hemogram interpretation

Interpretation

Bone marrow aspiration

Procedure

Haemoglobin HPLC (variant analysis)

Interpretation

Apheresis

Plasmapheresis (donor apheresis)

Procedure

Red cell exchange (apheresis)

Procedure

Photopheresis

ProcedureLevel II (DNB)

Immunoadsorption column therapy

ProcedureLevel II (DNB)

Apheresis / Stem cell

Component preparation

Plasma fractionation (pooling, viral inactivation)

Lab techniqueLevel II (DNB)

Packed red blood cell (PRBC) component preparation

Procedure

Platelet concentrate preparation

Procedure

Cryoprecipitate preparation

Procedure

Component preparation / QC

Component storage and quality control

Lab technique

Coagulation

Prothrombin time (PT) / INR

Lab techniqueLevel II (DNB)

Activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT)

Lab techniqueLevel II (DNB)

Fibrinogen assay

Lab techniqueLevel II (DNB)

Thrombin time

Lab techniqueLevel II (DNB)

Coagulation factor assay

Lab technique

Platelet function testing

Lab techniqueLevel II (DNB)

Coagulation / Clinical

Bleeding history taking

Clinical examinationLevel II (DNB)

Histocompatibility

HLA typing (PCR-SSP / PCR-SSOP)

Lab technique

CDC (complement-dependent cytotoxicity) crossmatch

Lab technique

Flow cytometry crossmatch

Lab technique

Luminex-based HLA antibody assay

Lab technique

HLA typing result interpretation

Interpretation

Flow cytometry / Immunology

Isolation of lymphocytes

Lab technique

Immunofluorescence technique

Lab technique

Clinical transfusion practice

Neonatal exchange transfusion

Procedure

Intrauterine transfusion (IUT)

ProcedureLevel I (DNB)

Platelet transfusion therapy and monitoring

Procedure

Bedside management of transfusion reactions

Procedure

Granulocyte transfusion

Procedure

Autologous blood / blood conservation

Acute normovolemic hemodilution

Procedure

Preoperative autologous blood deposit

Procedure

Stem cell / PBSCT

Training