14 April 2017 (Friday) - Haemolysis




This image appeared this morning on a Facebook group I follow with the caption “What causes serum to look like this no matter the draw? Pt urine looks the same and the pt is apparently bleeding out of everywhere
There is intravascular haemolysis going on here. It is *nasty*. I’ve only ever seen it this bad once before when the patient in question had swallowed the contents of a bottle of shampoo and died within hours…

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