How to Manage: Benign Haematology
Provided by Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
About the course
Learning aims, objectives and outcomes
- Be able to investigate and diagnose common benign paediatric haematology problems in children
- Understand normal and abnormal neonatal haematology
- Be familiar with treatment of children with acquired and inherited anaemias including iron deficiency, thalassaemia, and sickle cell disease
- Be familiar with the investigation and management of immune thrombocytopenic purpura
- Understand the investigation and principles of management of children with abnormal blood clotting, including children with bruising, abnormal bleeding and thrombosis
- Develop an approach to investigating and managing children with unexplained low neutrophil counts