A Dull Day At Work...?

18 July 2025 (Thursday) - Chief Scientific Officer's Update

The Office of the Chief Scientific Officer sent out their update today. You can read it by clicking here.

There was quite a bit about near patient testing which is probably the way forward, but…

I know I’m an old reactionary but all the verbals about the government’s 10 Year Health Plan for England…

We all know that despite it being what the country probably needs, whatever plan any government has for healthcare will be in place for less than a year before it is scrapped and replaced by another in the desperate hope of short term political gain, don’t we?

18 July 2025 (Thursday) - FFP Again

On Monday the nice people at Blood, Bytes and Beyond put out a little guide about plasma transfusions.
They’re added a few more:
A guide to using FFP
When not to use FFP
What to use instead.

A very useful set of refreshers…

15 July 2025 (Tuesday) - BTLP-TACT Exercise

Time for another BTLP-TACT exercise. I was presented with two cases:

79165 – a thirty-one year-old woman needing six units of blood following a stabbing. The date of birth on the sample was wildly different to that on the paperwork, so I rejected it. Despite the urgency of the case I’d rather operate without a blood sample than having one from the wrong patient.

20599 – a ninety-seven year-old chap needing two units of blood following burns.
He grouped as A Rh(D) Positive with a negative antibody screen. I selected two units of A Rh(D) Positive blood

I got the thumbs-up