An
interesting post Medical Laboratory Science group over on Facebook: “So I got written up recently for over
calling bands because the NICU uses the IT ratio to determine if the babies
need continued antibiotic treatment. Apparently the top one here would actually
be considered a seg, according to my hospital. I don't recall learning this in
school. Do you guys?”
“Band” neutrophils as opposed to “segmented” neutrophils… ? Both are
American terms, aren’t they? The subsequent discussion was interesting. Over
here in the UK we’d never mess about trying to differentiate between segmented and
band forms. We’d just report “left shift”
and leave it at that.
Wouldn’t
we…?
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