Peripheral Blood Tutor

COURSE OUTLINE:

Introduction: Overview, Smear Preparation, Wright’s Stain Procedure, Smear Evaluation.
Cell Morphologies: Blood Cell Structure, Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells, Platelets Artefacts Quiz.
Disease Associations: Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells, Neoplastic Disorders.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Describe the steps necessary for the preparation of a Wright-stained peripheral blood smear and its proper microscopic evaluation
• Identify the sequence of cell types encountered during normal maturation of myeloid, erythroid, and megakaryocytic cells in the marrow
• Recognize and name the normal and abnormal forms of neutrophils, erythrocytes, lymphocytes, macrophages, and platelets using proper medical terminology
• Correlate single morphologic abnormalities seen in any of the above cell lineages to one or more specific disease states
• Integrate combinations of morphologic abnormalities involving one or more cell lineages to suggest a diagnosis of a disease state

This product is now supplied as an online course. You have unlimited access to the course for 5 years.