Threshold limits for platelet transfusions, factor assays (remember those?) and poking about in samples with wooden sticks to check for clots. This month’s Fritsma Factor newsletter is a tad old-skool… but then, so am I.
I’ll just
make the observation that in this high-tech age of science there is still a
place for getting hold of a snake, milking its venom and using that as a
reagent. Back in the day (early to mid 1980s) there was a very active
haematology group which met at St Thomas’s hospital on Thursday evenings.
People would do round trips of over a hundred miles to be there (I did)
and back then people were sneering at the rough and ready use of snake venom in
haemostasis.
Has
nothing been developed in the meantime to replace Russell’s viper?
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