Time for
another BTLP-TACT exercise...
I logged
in, the software hung. I refreshed it and it presented me with no cases at all.
I again refreshed it and I got two cases.
23905 – a forty-six
year old woman requiring two units of blood as soon as possible.
The NHS
number was wrong – I rejected it.
96628 – a forty-three
year old chap requiring eight units of blood for an exchange transfusion the
next day.
The chap
was O Rh(D) Pos with a negative antibody screen. I selected eight units of O
Rh(D) Pos K-Neg, and again the software hung.
I got the red
light… the software didn’t recognise that I *had* selected eight units
of blood for the second patient.
Much as I am grateful to the nice people at NEQAS who
have created it, and much as I am grateful to my boss who pays for me to play
with it, more and more I approach the thing with a sense of dread. I feel I’m
not so much testing what I do on a daily basis as seeing how well I can do on a
simulator which (in all honestly) is not at all intuitive and is very
much a work in progress (even though no work seems to be progressing).
On
reflection I’d say much the same about their digital morphology microscope
simulator which seems to be problematical at best.
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