let’s take a cellfie · let’s take a cellfie the digital microscopy dilemma. rebecca warwick...
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Let’s take a CellfieThe digital microscopy dilemma.
Rebecca Warwick
Chris Greenwood
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What is cellavision anyway?
Differential?
Barriers
▹ Genuine problems▸ Gold standard of microscopy▸ Optical microscopy is all we knew
▹ Resistance to change▸ Human nature to resist change▸ Low average age in our diff room
What are the benefits?
Time – CellaVision has done the hard work
Reduced costs – less FTE required
Quality remains high
Remote access
Job loss?
Job loss?
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Facebook Poll
There are drawbacks
▹ Film quality
▹ Can’t “go looking”
▹ Platelet clumps
▹ Depth of field
▹ Extreme WBC’s
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Other niggly differences
▹ Toxic gran
▹ Blasts
▹ Rouleaux
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HSIG Poll
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Platelet clumps
Microscope image!
XN’s platelet clumping
flag has room for
improvement
EDTA-mediated platelet
clumping
IT3000 rules and
platelet clumping flag
Diagnosis analyte
Not a perfect system
Recommendations
▹ Yes it is safe!
▹ If in doubt – go back to the film!
▹ Most Haematology patients.
▹ Manually made slides
When CellaVision goes right19
Experience counts20
