Anemia: Lesson 4 - Clues from the blood smear

A review of some common abnormalities seen on a blood smear of patients presenting with anemia: hypochromia, schistocytes, microspherocytes, hypersegmented neutrophils, bite cells, sickle cells, target cells, basophilic stippling, etc...

[eez]

Another one! Thank you sir for blessing me with your videos. I appreciate you

[sunving]

Thank you, good lecture, good refresh.

[SKARTHIKSELVAN]

Thanks for your video. I am eagerly waiting for next video.

[persistentone]

How can you order a lab to do a search for hypersegmented neutrophils? On a CBC, is that a standard diagnostic check that is always done? Or would a search for that only be triggered by an MCV being above the high end of the normal range?

[HafizahHoshni]

Simply excellent. Very grateful for clear, concise and well presented video. Thank you for the great channel. 😊😊 27/9/2022

[howtomedicate]

Ah blood smears... I always found those so hard to interpret as a medical student 😅👍

[mirbedirxan]

Thanks for your all videos. Sir could you make series videos abouth blood smear examination? That will be very usefull and helpfull.

[rhiannacatherine]

Hi, if the paleness of RBCs would this be the result for any stain?

[js-sfbp]

My blood test shows normocytic normochromic blood picture
Is that normal?