16 July 2020 (Thursday) - Transfusion News Update

The nice people at “Transfusion News” sent their update today. Again it was rather biased toward COVID-19.
But then isn’t everything these days?

Practical Guidance for Blood Supply and Use during the COVID-19 Pandemic

July 15, 2020 Researchers in Europe and Canada reviewed more than 9,000 publications about COVID-19 and identified 414 papers relevant to blood collections, processing, and transfusions in order to provide practical guidance for the medical community on blood use and supply during the ongoing pandemic. They provide several recommendations. [Read More]

Therapeutic Plasma Exchange in Patients with Severe COVID-19

July 1, 2020 Many patients with severe COVID-19 deteriorate rapidly when their immune systems become hyperactive, also known as cytokine storm. No effective treatments for cytokine storms in patients with COVID-19 have been identified, but researchers in China report that therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) was an effective treatment in three male patients (aged 44, 55, and 64 years) with [Read More]

15 July 2020 (Wednesday) - Hb Little Rock

Can you access this link (click here) ? If not join the Facebook group. It is a case study on Haemoglobin Little Rock. Back in the day I set up a small haemoglobinopathy section. I found it one of the most interesting parts of the job.
I still do…

15 July 2020 (Wednesday) - Stirring Trouble?

I’m sorry… I’m going to have a rant today.

I’ve worked in medical laboratories for nearly forty years. During that time I have worked with people of all shapes and sizes and colours and flavours and nationalities and races. I’ve had serious disagreements with those who look very like me, and formed incredibly close friendships with those who are utterly different. Having the nice people at Lablogtory now start banging on about how hospital laboratories should have a role in inclusion just shows how out of touch they are.

It speaks volumes that someone somewhere feels they can try to make an issue where demonstrably there isn’t one.