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....
The British Society for Haematology has published guidance on the laboratory diagnosis of malaria. Clare’s done a little review of them and of how she implements them. You can read it by clicking here.
I’ll just make the observation that whilst it is patently obvious that one hundred per cent compliance with the guidelines is what is expected, in the New World Order of modern laboratory management one has to explicitly say this…
I did a BTLP-TACT case only four days ago, but the boss sent me an email telling me to get on and do more, so here we are again. To be honest I’m glad that he does prompt me; it is so easy to forget…
I had one
case – a fifty-three year old woman from urology out patients requiring group
& save.
She
grouped as O Rh(D) Positive with a negative antibody screen
I got it right…
Here’s something from the nice people at Lablogatory that made me sit up and take notice. A case study of a chap in his seventies with a very sudden onset of neutropenia. This turned out to be a case of acute myeloid leukaemia. The general perception is that acute leukaemia is synonymous with a while cell count in the hundreds… this is not always the case.
I myself saw a very similar case only last week…
