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Registration 09:15

Saturday: 09:30-16:30

Sunday:  09:30-16:30

This course is accredited for 12 CPD Hours by the European Academy of Chiropractic.

This seminar is developed to support healthcare professionals, chiropractors, osteopaths, physiotherapists in developing a knowledge of common blood tests and how to analyse them and recognise significance of abnormal findings and when to act upon them.

Course Objectives

• Understand blood test results, what they mean and when these should be taken:• Understand the legal aspects of blood test investigation and the implications for practice.

• Explain the relevance of the results of each of the common blood tests used in practice:
o    FBC
o    LFT
o    U&Es
o    Anaemia-Different types, how do we know? What is the relevance?
o    Inflammatory markers

• Develop an understanding of the effects of normal ageing on blood tests and when to take action.

• Understand the difference between Anaemia of long term conditions versus acute blood loss

• Understand the significance of Hypo/hypernatraemia

• Understand the significance of hypo/hyperkalaemia

• Understand the significance of the results of blood tests for cancer markers and when and where to act on these.

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Speaker - Mandy Rumley-Buss

Mandy Rumley-Buss – MA Interprofessional Health & Community Care, BSc Hons Nursing (Accident & Emergency),Non Medical Prescriber

Cert Ed-Lecturer