This is (supposed to be) a reflective diary by a (not very) anonymous biomedical scientist who works somewhere in the south of England. One day this diary may well be submitted to the Health and Care Professions Council as evidence of ongoing continual professional development....
Time for another BTLP-TACT exercise? I’m just about to go to bed before the night shift, so what else might I be doing?
I was
presented with one case - a forty-nine
year-old woman in the gynaecology clinic requiring group & save.
She
grouped as O Rh(D) Positive with an antibody screen positive in cell 2. I
ordered antibody panels. The IAT and enzyme panels were positive in cells 2 and
6 which corresponded with anti-K
I got the green light.
The closing comments for digital morphology NEQAS 2202DM are out. I said:
“Hypochromic microcytic film showing acanthocytes with occasional
pencil cells.
Blast cells and smear cells seen.”
The narrative… wasn’t very helpful. This was supposedly a case of AML, but many of the diagnostic features appeared once, and they weren’t particularly good examples.
Bearing this in mind and the fact that it is over a month since I looked at the film… I’ve got to question the worth f this as a learning tool. I need feedback right there and then, not a month later when I can’t remember anything about it.
The Oxford Academic people sent their “Laboratory Medicine” e-magazine today. I don’t want to appear flippant, but I can only assume their laboratory is incredibly different to my one. Whilst it was all certainly very interesting, very little of it was of any practical relevance to what I do on a daily basis.
But there were one or two snippets. Cryoprecipitate reduced plasma? Is that a thing?
