FRCPath Haemostasis and Thrombosis Training and Update Online

Overview

Key facts

Maintenance of blood fluidity and patency of the vascular system is crucial for normal human physiology. The term ‘haemostasis’ refers to the normal response of the vessel to injury by forming a clot that serves to limit haemorrhage. Thrombosis is pathological clot formation that results when haemostasis is excessively activated in the absence of bleeding. 

Under normal physiological conditions there is a delicate equilibrium between the pathological states of hypercoagulability and hypocoagulability in the circulating blood. Both inherited and acquired disorders can result in either bleeding or thrombosis. 

University of Birmingham's FRCPath Haemostasis and Thrombosis Training and Update Online programme will teach you more about this topic.