Learning to count is hard. Learning to count cells is harder. Luckily we've got an expert with us today to show us the basics. Welcome back to a new batch of episodes where we unpack the highs and lows of haematology and teach you what to do with those pesky out of range blood counts. 

But to do that we need to know where the numbers come from. We don't know, so we asked Mitchell Rawlings a senior scientist in haematology to come along and relieve of us of our ignorance. Mitch takes us through automated analysers, the principles of cell counting, and some of those mysterious other acronyms on the full blood count. 

TIMESTAMPS

1:25 - A year in review
3:09 - Haematology Made Simple
4:04 - Everyone deals with FBCs...
4:52 - Mitch Rawlings
5:48 - God that intro segment was long
9:47 - FBC Stats
10:19 - Three Letter Acronym Time
13:57 - FBC Journey from Vein to Screen
15:30 - Analyser Magic
16:40 - Coulter principle
17:56 - Ghosts in the machine
19:40 - The Differential
21:25 - Red Flags
24:43 - Haemoglobin measurement - productive destruction
26:46 - The lab doesn't hate you - please send enough blood
28:53 - Retics all day long
30:07 - Derived, measured, calculated parameters
32:15 - QC + Drift Controls
34:06 - Wrong blood in tube
36:29 - Platelet counting - citrated, manual counts
40:14 - Mixing "studies" - really bad for FBC
42:08 - The problem with aspirating clots

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