The nice people at the Fritsma Factor
sent out their newsletter today. You can read it by
clicking here. There was quite a bit to take in. Sickle cell, lupus, Von
Willebrands….
It’s a rather good source of CPD…
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....
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Showing posts with label Fritsma Factor. Show all posts
2 June 2026 (Tuesday) - Fritsma Factor Newsletter
The nice people at the Fritsma Factor sent
their update today. This time there’s quite a bit of stuff which went over
my head. Perhaps it shouldn’t… which is why I do CPD…
3 March 2026 (Tuesday) - Fritsma Factor Update
The Fritsma
Factor newsletter appeared in my in-box this evening. There was quite a bit
to take in, but I’m very grateful for this update. It’s effectively my only way
of keeping up with current developments in haemostasis.
3 February 2026 (Tuesday) - Fritsma Factor Newsletter
The Fritsma Factor newsletter appeared in my in-box this morning. You can see it by clicking here. As always it was rather useful, and this month it had quite a lot more in it than usual…
7 January 2026 (Wednesday) - Protein Z (?!)
The Fritsma Factor update arrived in my in-box today. You can read it by
clicking here.
As always there is loads of useful stuff. Some on what you might call “routine”
haemostasis, and some rather more esoteric… and talk about Protein Z. What on
Earth is that? Well, here’s
an introduction, but as far as I’m
concerned, it’s something new. And a day when I don’t learn anything new is a
day wasted…
2 December 2025 (Tuesday) - Fritsma Factor Newsletter
The Fritsma Factor newsletter appeared
in my in-box today. You can see it by
clicking here. This month there was quite a bit more than there usually is,
Underfilled samples, anticoagulation, the PT, haemophilia…
Loads of stuff.
4 November 2025 (Tuesday) - Fritsma Factor Newsletter
The Fritsma
Factor newsletter appeared in my in-box this morning. As always it’s a
rather useful source of information on matters haemostatic…
2 October 2025 (Thursday) - Fritsma Factor Newsletter
Quality management, AI and platelet
counts, case studies… again the Fritsma
Factor newsletter is a little gem.
4 September 2025 (Thursday) - Fritsma Factor Newsletter
One article made me
think – measurement
of uncertainty.. it’s always been an issue in haemostatic investigations,
hasn’t it? The very nature of that for which we are testing means that any issues
in collecting a sample can give a dubious result. I can remember doing my IBMS
Special Examination in 1987 when I was asked about dealing with a prolonged
APTT. The first line of approach was to ask for a repeat sample…
6 August 2025 (Wednesday) - Fritsma Factor Newsletter
Postpartum DIC,
auto-immune haemophilias… there’s always something of interest in the Fritsma
Factor newsletter.
7 July 2025 (Monday) - Fritsma Factor Update
Fibrinolysis, haemophilia, DIC, mixing studies… the Fritsma Factor newsletter is always a useful thing to have. And it’s free too.
3 June 2025 (Tuesday) - Fritsma Factor Newsletter
The Fritsma
Factor newsletter appeared in my in-box today. You can read it by clicking
here. As always it has some useful snippets… but bleeding time and whole blood
clotting time? Seriously?
6 May 2025 (Tuesday) - Fritsma Factor Update
8 April 2025 (Tuesday) - Fritsma Factor Newsletter
Lupus – warfarin, an
ongoing growing list of abbreviations, mixing studies… as always the Fritsma
Factor newsletter is a very useful thing to have. And having it for free is
certainly a result.
4 March 2025 (Tuesday) - Fritsma Factor Newsletter
The nice people at Fritsma Factor sent
their update today. Factor deficiencies, lupus, standardization of INR
results… all good stuff.
3 February 2025 (Monday) - Fritsma Factor Newsletter
The latest Fritsma
Factor newsletter appeared in my in-box today.
Proteins S and C, platelet clumping… all
useful stuff.
6 January 2025 (Monday) - Fritsma Factor Update
The Fritsma Factor newsletter appeared in my inbox today. As always it is a rather useful update on all matters haemostatic…
2 December 2024 (Monday) - Fritsma Factor Newsletter
The Fritsma Factor newsletter appeared
in my in=box today. You can read it by
clicking here.
One article made me think… how do you know if a sample has got a clot in
it? Well, you pop it open and fish about with a wooden stick, don’t you? We’ve
certainly been doing that since 1981. It would seem there’s no evidence that
this doesn’t activate an otherwise decent sample…
So what are we supposed to do?
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