The nice people at Oncology Central sent
their update today. You can see it by
clicking here.
Quite often (usually) the oncology-related
stuff I find for CPD goes over my head. Much of this did, but maybe some of it
has stuck?
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....
8 November 2023 (Wednesday) - Safety
The nice people at Lablogatory sent an
update on safety today. You can read it by
clicking here.
I won’t lie; my initial reaction was “pah
– safety…” and to reach for the “delete” button.
But safety is incredibly important. As
semi-retirement looms I find myself thinking about the (so-called) good
old days.
When I first started in lab work there
were ash trays by the microscopes, we sharpened pencils with scalpel blades (on
regularly seeing people cut themselves I bought myself a pencil sharpener!),
and I can distinctly recall a meeting with the senior chief MLSO (as we were
called back then) in which he said he couldn’t advise me not to join the
pension scheme, but said that he would make the observation that the average
age of death of people in our line of work was fifty-seven, and that they often
died from stuff they caught in the lab.
Safety *is* important.
6 November 2023 (Monday) - BTLP-TACT Exercise
Time for another BTLP-TACT exercise. I
had one case – a twenty year old chap with haemophilia requiring group and save.
He grouped as O Rh(D) Positive with a
negative antibody screen.
I got the green light.
2 November 20023 (Thursday) - Fritsma Factor Update
The nice people at the Fritsma
Factor sent their update today. They’ve changed how they operate… rather than a
monthly newsletter they just seem to regularly update their website instead… which is
rather tricky for providing evidence of CPD if every month I give a link to the
same website.
My issue here is that George
has changed something, and I don’t do change very well.
But one of the things they
updated it with today was an article describing a discussion on sticky platelet syndrome…
I can vaguely remember something about that.
1 November 2023 (Wednesday) - Stago Newsletter
The nice people at Stago sent
their update today. You can read it by
clicking here.
I’ll be honest – don’t bother.
The company’s push to being carbon neutral and its Societal Commitments and
compliance with the UK Modern Slavery Act (2015) is all very necessary…
but *not* in any way relevant to me improving what I do on a daily basis.
I’m off sick with COVID right
now, and this is making my bad mood worse. There’s reflection for you…
31 October 2023 (Tuesday) - Westgard QC Update
The nice people at Westgard QC
sent their update today. You can read it by clicking here.
I’ll be honest – I’m off sick with COVID, and this is a bit heavy for me right now. I’ll come back to it later (really!)
I’ll be honest – I’m off sick with COVID, and this is a bit heavy for me right now. I’ll come back to it later (really!)
31 October 2023 (Tuesday) - Transfusion Evidence Alert
The nice people at Transfusion
Evidence Alert sent their update today. Far from being entirely hi-tec, tranexamic
acid and cell salvage are very much the way forward.
ARTICLE OF THE MONTH Cell salvage for minimising perioperative allogeneic blood transfusion in adults undergoing elective surgery.Lloyd, T. D., et al. (2023). The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.PICO Summary available +++++ |
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