Hematology - Complete Blood Count (CBC) - Critical Care Labs

In this last lesson in our critical care labs series, we take a look at our collection of hematology studies that are included in the complete blood count or CBC. This is another very common test in the ICU for our critically ill patients and gives us a lot of useful information to try and help diagnose and treat our patients. Understand their purpose, normal and abnormal values, and what would lead to high or low levels of specific tests is imperative in the ICU. Hopefully I am able to help break this information down for you.
0:00 Intro
1:47 Hemoglobin
3:58 Hematocrit
6:02 RBCs
9:14 WBCs
12:41 Platelets
14:18 Conclusion
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Very useful information for anyone interpreting CBC. Thank you.One comment: PLT goes down and is significant in Dx of Dengue fever and is also a marker of recovery when returns to normal. Patients with Dengue fever need admission and daily monitoring of PLT for bleeding. Severe cases need ICU admission.

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Excellent presentation, you are very gifted in synthesizing material and presenting it an understandable and precise format. Perhaps a little fast to take down notes.

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Very good Thank you. Haematology has been rocket science for me but you made it less complex

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Excellent, very helpful. One question, are there any conditions causing decreased monocytes?

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This was a great video. I'm going through some issues now but it's not pinpointed through the CBC or any other blood test. My platelet count is high due to spleen removal. Will this go back to normal?

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What about a decrease in monocytes?

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Which parameters does covid affect?

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Will you kindly talk about cardiac assessment and cardiac sounds, I still find them tricky to differentiate with stethoscope

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Why don't Nucleated RBC's get any attention when it comes to CBC tests?

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[@Epitopi]

Suggestion: a better way of defining hematocrit is "the percentage of RBCs that make up a volume of blood." Hence why over-hydration leads to hemodilution. The definition in the video implies hematocrit is a ratio between RBCs and other blood cells.

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Dumb question... if the Hgb is inside of the RBC or is a component of the RBC, how do laboratory scientists isolate it? How is it measured separately from RBCs?

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Can't read the medications for Hematocrit...it's blurry...

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That is also on the todo list! Stay tuned.

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Can a complete blood count result determine a blood type? How?

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