BenchTech

I am enormously honoured to announce that I am going to be awarded the Gold Medal of the British Blood Transfusion Society at their Annual Scientific Meeting in Brighton this year.  It is awarded to an individual for their exceptional and long standing services to the Society and to the practice of blood transfusion in the UK.  Sorry if this sounds egocentric, but I am very excited.

I've used the the CA1500 for about 13 years at multiple different facilities and although it is a work horse with very few issues, the technology is very antiquated. We've been trying to upgrade for a number of years to the 2500 but no luck securing the money yet. If you're looking, don't even look at the CA1500 definitely look at the 2500 or something else. 

I bought "Blood Cell Morphology Grading Guide" by Gene Gulati - an excellent reference for bench techs.  One of anything seen in an entire slide is not significant. All references give a percentage of cells with the specific morphological feature as a guide for grading. I always tell people, you shouldn't have to look for morphology, it should jump out at you. (with the exception of malaria/babesia - they can be sneaky)

Hello!  Our lab has two Sysmex XN analyzers, the XN line, and the SP-10 slidemaker/stainer.  We do not have the Cellavision nor do we have SoftLab (we use Cerner for our LIS).  I can't speak for the Cellavision or the LIS software - but if you need any help with the XN series analyzers or stainer, let me know!

i have a DM96 Cellavision and Soft.  Hemo instruments are DxH800.  We have to manipulate 2 separate interfaces in order to get the cellavision results into the CBCWD order.  it's really crappy because we have to make sure to clear the diff pad before going into the cellavision interface to post those results.
if you want more details, let me know....