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....
Beckman-Coulter sent their update today. This is the sort of thing I feel I should be reading as CPD; directly relevant to what I do on a daily basis…
“Monocyte distribution width”… a new parameter of use in sepsis and in COVID-19 infections. How long will it be before all the other blood test devices are producing this information?
The HCPC sent their update today. I was rather pleased to read the bits about advice for completing a CPD profile.
I remain convinced that this is a good way to record evidence…
I came back from holiday to find that the nice people at the BBTS had sent me their most recent “Transfusion Medicine”. There were a couple of articles about genotyping recipients and matching donor blood as far as possible…
A sensible idea… given a big enough donor pool…
