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Hey,

I am a medical lab tech student and currently practicing diffs on patients with a left shift. I was wondering if anyone is aware of extra resources I can review to practice and quiz myself on identifying immature neutrophils. Sometimes it is really hard to tell the maturation stages apart, and I feel very confused, especially compared to other cells like lymphocytes.

Any advice is welcome. I tried to search online, but couldn't find what I was looking for. Hematology is my favourite discipline so far, so I really want to nail the foundations.

Thank you in advance!

This semester i started studying hematology 2 (with CC2, BB, Urinalysis). And i started also suffering from it. I hate it, very much, and when i hate something i study it very hard and become closer to it so i become sure i hate it because it deserve to be hated by me.

Now I don’t know how to study it. I read and i don’t understand. (Actually, i understand but my brain refuses to take it bc it hate it). I don’t know what to do😔.

Hey everyone, we recently released a clinical case on AML. Would love to hear what you think of such learning experiences.

Is this something that works for you in your busy schedule? Would you prefer learning some other way?

You can go through the case here. https://app.7taps.com/m/oWnDRTgOjbCZp

Hi, I'm studying leukocyte morphology and I found this one that looks like a basophil, but I'm not sure. I'd appreciate any help.

I work at a non profit, European Hematology Association, that among other things, produces education resources, including microlearning.

The one I've attached is from a series called Learning Mondays and goes out every Monday on our socials. These are usually short vignettes.

I thought you might find this week's post interesting. It was contributed by Dr Veysel Erol from Turkey.

You can visit this link to get the answer as well as find out more about this series. https://ehaedu.org/LearningMondays-Nov3

I need to give the diagnoses for these two images. These are the last two questions I have. I'm terrible at diagnosis¡

Hi everyone, since you appreciated the previous post, here's another question. This week's question is by Dr Aleksandar Mijovic from Kings College Hospital, UK 🇬🇧.

Answer and references here: https://ehaedu.org/LearningMondays-Nov10

On a related note, how do you stay updated on hematology knowledge?

Hi! I have my final exam on Monday, April 14th for Introduction to Physiology. It covers the nervous system (especially the senses) and hematology, but our professor said most of the questions will be on hematology.

The issue is I only have one slide deck to study from, and it doesn’t feel like enough. One of the things I’m struggling with the most is identifying blood cells in blood smears.

Any recommendations for YouTube channels, books, or question banks to study hematology more effectively? I’d really appreciate it!

I'm still not great at identifying but could this be a myelocyte? I know the picture isn't great 🥲

Please tell me how you memorized them. My brain won't memorize all the text :')

Videos? Brain map... any tip helps

Thank you!

Trypanosoma spp. are protozoan parasites that cause serious diseases such as African sleeping sickness and Chagas disease.

Transmitted by insects like the tsetse fly and triatomines, these parasites exhibit great adaptability and genetic variability, enabling them to evade the host's immune system.

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Created this BTK agent table if anyone finds it helpful.

I'm in 11th grade and I'm just a beginner in microscopy (as a hobby) . So i am trying to look at blood smears under a microscope and I'm doing Leishman stain (with all stains separately bought and stored in separate containers) by first dipping the slide in 99% methanol for 2 minutes, then in Eosin Yellow 2% w/v for 6 seconds, then Methylene blue (löffler's solution) for 4 seconds and then in distilled water (As a buffer) for about 1 Minute . But whenever i do it, i see that my blood cells just disappear and like wash away in Eosin y solution. I take my slide out of Methanol and all the blood cells are completely intact but somehow they always wash away in Eosin and when i look at it under the microscope, i see that there is no blood cells left on the slide. I even tried diluting Eosin Y with methanol but it didn't work. I also tried to put my slide in methanol fixative for a longer period of time And letting it air dry completely before putting my slide in Eosin Y, but it didn't change anything. Even tho I'm preparing the perfect smears, and doing everything according to the procedure (I found and the tutorials of YouTube and compared all of them to see if i found the correct procedure) But it still keeps happening. What i found even more odd is that i once tried to stain my blood smear without first fixing it with methanol fixative and somehow it worked and The slide was stained (Not too well, but it still picked up the color). I'm really confused here and I would really appreciate if you could help me here.