Hawksley reader

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FINNIGAN — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:22:33 GMT

thanks guys, have got in touch with hawksley themselves awaiting reply if no luck then il be contacting j.a.k

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purfect247 — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:57:36 GMT

We sell the Hawksley Reader £56.65 and they are in stock

J.A.K Marketing 01347 878697

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Heather Barlow — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:24:17 GMT

So very easy : measure the height of the redblood cell layer X 100 then divide by the height of the total column, this then allows a true haematocrit since you can look at and measure the buffy coat and plasma colour also. This is a very accurate method and wil give the same results as the reader! I have been using this very successfully for 30 years.

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FINNIGAN — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:56:12 GMT

yes please if you dont mind, i did find one on line but is £55, boss says toooo expensive, thought that was quite reasonable!!!!

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SmegSlayer — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:52:37 GMT

woodley do cardboard ones. I really want a Hawksley, especially when people forget to wipe the cardboard one clean and it gets covered in blood

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Deemus — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 06:54:45 GMT

I looked into one of these last year with my student but the boss said they were too expensive. One of the companies did send me a cardboard version which is essentially the same but can be a bit tricky to read.

If you'd like me to find out which one then give me a shout and I'll have a shufty

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Sal the 1st — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:43:19 GMT

its a rough way of doing it when you have nothing else available if you have a haematocrit tube that has been spun measure from the top of the sealant to the top of the plasma in mms then measure from the top of the sealant to the buffy coat.

so if 1st measurement was 50mm and second measurement was 25mm the calculation would be 25/50 x100 = 50% giving you a pcv of 50%

you could also do this directly by measuring the two levels in a spun sample in a blood tube and again will give you a rough estimate but wont be as accurate as a haematocrit tube as most blood tubes have a convex bottom.

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Poppy — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:56:37 GMT

Can you please explain what you have to do with the ruler, I have not heard of this method.

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FINNIGAN — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:32:13 GMT

thanku, and i didnt actually know about using a ruler till today, was good to learn something new!!!

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Sal the 1st — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:56:27 GMT

I seem to think the last one I bought was from QCR - which would have been the cheapest I could find at the time. Glad somebody else uses a ruler - sometimes if you havnt got something it is good to be able to improvise