Great idea for a series. Perhaps more detail like types of anaemia and more causes of abnormal results etc would’ve been useful to include but I appreciate the time these videos must take to make vs other commitments.
An FBC could be suggestive of either of those things, but wouldn't be confirmatory (diagnostic) of either. The best way to look at it would be that the FBC could give you more data points supportive or otherwise of a particular diagnosis. But just because someone has a raised white cell count for example it doesn't necessarily mean they have an infection, although it would be consistent with that diagnosis.
The graphic representation that shows the reasons for shortage and excess is simply SUPERB and easy to understand. Great!!!
As a student nurse who just started in an AMU placement and was trying to wrap my head around blood counts. Thank you for such a clear explanation:)
Very welcome!
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Great content! As an aspiring med student this was fascinating, and would love to see more in the same vein ;)
Thanks, as a Bachelor in psychology student in malta, hoping to get into med school soon, this was very concise and usefull for me. Thank you dr.
Great idea for a series. Perhaps more detail like types of anaemia and more causes of abnormal results etc would’ve been useful to include but I appreciate the time these videos must take to make vs other commitments.
Absolutely, I need to do one for anaemia workup - would have made this one vastly too long but it's very interesting stuff
More commonly used now is the smonovette system the colour for edta tube is a pinkish red tube
I found this useful, thank you.
Will you be doing a little series like this going through the other tests?
Yes I will - will be going through U&E, LFTs, clotting profiles and Group and save/cross matching etc at the very least
Thank You. My Iron low bad and this was requested by my doctor😢
Can fcb detect if something wrong with your liver,kidney and heart?
Brilliant - thanks! Look forward to the next video!
Thanks Dr... very short video and detailed information... thank you so much 👍👍
How to use FBC machine
very good. what is a Festud blood test?
I have a question...why does our machine undercount most platelets?
This is so concise.
Nice explanation 👍
Super helpful thank you
Thank you Sir amazing video !
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Why do we need to take CBC
Would an FBC show up cancer or infection in your body?
An FBC could be suggestive of either of those things, but wouldn't be confirmatory (diagnostic) of either. The best way to look at it would be that the FBC could give you more data points supportive or otherwise of a particular diagnosis. But just because someone has a raised white cell count for example it doesn't necessarily mean they have an infection, although it would be consistent with that diagnosis.
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Ahem, U&Es perchance? Cheeky.
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