Continuing Education

Simplifying Automation in Hematology

Marion Carrillo

Last Update July 30, 2023

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About This Course

LIVE ZOOM PRESENTION ON JULY 29TH AT 10 a.m.

Do you ever look at the scatter plot that comes with the results of a CBC (complete blood count)? Be honest 🙂 In MLT school we learned how to read one and its usefulness but can you interpret one now? An automated CBC analyzer is the foundation of a modern diagnostic laboratory but few know how one works and that can affect our ability to properly interpret or validate a patient’s CBC. To give our patients the best care, it is important for us to review automation in hematology and Becky Socha is the ideal medical laboratory scientist to help us.

Becky Socha earned her BS in Medical technology from Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts and completed her MS at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Over her career, she has worked in all areas of the clinical laboratory and has also been teaching at the university level for the past 25 years. She has taught Hematology and Transfusion Medicine as well as Pathophysiology, Anatomy and Physiology and Public Health. She currently is a MLSIII in Hematology at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Ms. Socha is passionate about education and keeping current with changes in the Medical Laboratory field. You can find her monthly blogs posted on Lablogatory, ASCP’s online blog for medical laboratory professionals. When she’s not busy being a mad scientist she can be found outside riding her bicycle.

Learning Objectives

Explain the principle of electrical impedance, and other measurement methods used in automated CBC analyzers.

Demonstrate the clinical utility of a scattergram review.

List 2 common interferences with automated cell counters.

Requirements

An electronic device for viewing the presentation.
A notepad to make notes.

Target Audience

Medical Laboratory technicians
Medical laboratory technologists
Medical laboratory scientists
Health care professionals interested in this topic

Curriculum

2 Lessons1h

Simplifying Automation in Hematology

Becky Socha MS, MLS(ASCP)cm BB, will help us review automation in hematology in a simplified way that will give us the ability to better interpret, troubleshoot, and validate patient's CBC results.

Simplifying Automation in Hematology

Simplifying Automation in Hematology (recording)00:58:40

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Marion Carrillo

MS, MLS (ASCP)cm

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Marion is a medical laboratory scientist certified by the American Society for Clinical Pathology. She also has a Masters degree in Clinical Laboratory Management and completed a specialist in blood banking certificate program. She has many years experience in the blood transfusion service in the U.S and in Trinidad and Tobago. In addition to the work done at Trinity she is an adjunct immunohaematology lecturer and provides non technical and technical advice to persons in need of blood, medical laboratory technologists respectively.