I recently found a video on youtube which was a great introduction to hematology analyzers, except it needed to be translated into English. The English translation of this video is as follows:
"Welcome to the Pulse Program.
We are presenting this program on the basic elements of human body and health.
A new discovery on health presentation follows.
Now we are standing at Hematology lab. Hematology is related to study on our blood cells and blood. After getting the patient’s blood and identifying it, it is fed into the fully automated Beckman Coulter instrument. There, in this instrument, it collects every type of cells and gives the count for each. In the auto analyzer, it divides the blood cells into three categories and gives the count for each.
First is RBC. It is the red blood cells in the body. We get its count in millions. If this number reduces, it is called an anemia. RBC contains hemoglobin and iron which takes oxygen to every part of our body. When this iron content reduces, hemoglobin level also reduces. It causes anemia.
Next is WBC, which stands for white blood cells. They function as antibodies which fight diseases in our body. There are five types of WBC in our body. These five types are indicated as L, M, N, B, E in reports. Neutrophil, Eosinophil, Basophil, Lymphocyte and Monotype. Now the report on the screen is of the blood we loaded on this instrument. WBC, RBC, Platelet are the three parts shown here. First I tell about RBC. Now what we are seeing is a very low and so it is highlighted in yellow. When it is abnormally high, it will be shown in red color. This is called flagging. When RBC reduces, hemoglobin also reduces, it is anemia. When the WBC increases, it is because of infection. Platelets are bodies that functions to clot the blood. Its normal count for our blood is between 1.5 to 4.5. When this reduces, it affects the clotting of blood and also creates bleeding points in our body.
When Eosinophil increases in WBC, it indicates allergy. When there is infection, Neutrophil increases. During viral infection, Lymphocytes increases.
Peripheral smearing is done and seen through microscope to find out how RBC, WBC & platelets are. For Peripheral smearing, we take a clean slide and place a drop on one extreme of the slide of patient’s identified blood with the help of a pippet. Then a spreader side is taken and placed at 45 degrees, drawn forward and smeared. It is allowed to dry for some time and the patients identification is marked on the slide. It is kept on the stain rack. On top of it, mgv stain is dropped. Leave it for 10 minutes till it gets stained. Then it is washed with distilled water and left for drying. Then it is to be seen under microscope for confirmation . Now, the stained slide is in my hand. We place it under microscope and study the cells. Now I see more nueotrophils. It shows bacterial infection. In single drop of blood we can see the various functions and infections."
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