This
morning on the Facebook “Hematology Interest Group” there was talk of Acute
Panmyelosis with Myelofibrosis. I’d never heard of it. I
looked it up – and learned something new…
And there
are those who look down on social media.
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 Professions Council as evidence of ongoing continual professional development....
28 November 2019 (Thursday) - MCV
One of the
trainees spotted this today. A patient’s MCV had changed by about ten per cent
overnight. Whilst it was a “normal” result, it shouldn’t do that.
We had a
really good chat about why this might have been. Did we have the right sample?
Had the wrong patient been bled? Were the analysers working properly?
It turned
out the sample was over a day old.
I quite
like these little ad-hoc teaching sessions.
27 November 2019 (Wednesday) - Transfusion Evidence Alert
The nice
people at the Transfusion
Evidence Alert sent their email today. As always there was far too much for
me to read in one sitting. Iron levels and tranexamic acid were something of a
theme in today’ instalment, but my eye was caught by one article
which was calling for some formal procedure for the evacuation of injured
astronauts from orbit to hospitals.
Makes you
think, doesn’t it?
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