Emergency Blood Preparedness Course for Medical Students
Since 2019, the staff at the Norwegian Centre for Blood Preparedness (Nokblod) have been teaching emergency blood collection and transfusion procedures to final-year medical students at the University of Bergen. These students are currently the only medical students in Norway offered this course. However, other universities are welcome to contact Nokblod if they are interested in providing similar training for their students. Below are some photos from our most recent course.
Published 6/10/2026
Last updated 9/30/2026
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Biomedical scientist from Nokblod demonstrating to medical students how to take a capillary blood test in order to determine the blood type using an ELDON card.
Staff from Nokblod demonstrating how to take blood samples from the blood collection bag.
Medical students practicing to determine the blood type using an eldon card.
Medical student palpating and locating a vein sufficent to collect blood from, while papers and checklists are reviewd by a fellow student.
A medical student collecting a unit of fresh whole blood from a fellow student while she is gently moving the bloodbag, in order to properly mix the blood and the anti-coagulant inside it.
Medical students practicing emergency blood collection procedures. Here a student transfuses back a unit of blood to its donor, simply using gravity.
