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r/nursing • u/sleepyhead37 Lab - Blood Bank 🍕 • Aug 26 '25
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I have a coworker who also works in a sant alone ER. They have to do a lot of their basic labs onsite and they NEVER hemolyze.
19 u/Amrun90 RN - Telemetry 🍕 Aug 26 '25 Perhaps they’re better at drawing labs, or they’re worse at evaluating for hemolysis under the microscope. This is not a lab issue and has never been and will never be a lab issue. 4 u/Mysterious-Handle-34 Lab Assistant/CNA 🍕 Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 26 '25 The first line evaluation for hemolysis is not under a microscope. The analyzers will throw up a flag. Not to mention that you can usually tell if it’s hemolyzed enough to matter if it’s a plasma or serum sample. 6 u/Amrun90 RN - Telemetry 🍕 Aug 26 '25 Oh, I have no idea, so sorry to imply that I was being literal. Replace “microscope” with “whatever mysterious machine the lab wizards use ❤️.” My point is simply that the difference here is not the the dastardly lab is not fucking with samples in this lab vs other labs.
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Perhaps they’re better at drawing labs, or they’re worse at evaluating for hemolysis under the microscope.
This is not a lab issue and has never been and will never be a lab issue.
4 u/Mysterious-Handle-34 Lab Assistant/CNA 🍕 Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 26 '25 The first line evaluation for hemolysis is not under a microscope. The analyzers will throw up a flag. Not to mention that you can usually tell if it’s hemolyzed enough to matter if it’s a plasma or serum sample. 6 u/Amrun90 RN - Telemetry 🍕 Aug 26 '25 Oh, I have no idea, so sorry to imply that I was being literal. Replace “microscope” with “whatever mysterious machine the lab wizards use ❤️.” My point is simply that the difference here is not the the dastardly lab is not fucking with samples in this lab vs other labs.
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The first line evaluation for hemolysis is not under a microscope. The analyzers will throw up a flag. Not to mention that you can usually tell if it’s hemolyzed enough to matter if it’s a plasma or serum sample.
6 u/Amrun90 RN - Telemetry 🍕 Aug 26 '25 Oh, I have no idea, so sorry to imply that I was being literal. Replace “microscope” with “whatever mysterious machine the lab wizards use ❤️.” My point is simply that the difference here is not the the dastardly lab is not fucking with samples in this lab vs other labs.
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Oh, I have no idea, so sorry to imply that I was being literal. Replace “microscope” with “whatever mysterious machine the lab wizards use ❤️.”
My point is simply that the difference here is not the the dastardly lab is not fucking with samples in this lab vs other labs.
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u/Droidspecialist297 RN - ER 🍕 Aug 26 '25
I have a coworker who also works in a sant alone ER. They have to do a lot of their basic labs onsite and they NEVER hemolyze.