White Cell Differential Calculation HELP!

Re: White Cell Differential Calculation HELP!

anji jonas — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:52:41 GMT

yeah im with sal, thats how i do them in practice.

when i went to axiom they had a neat gadget that you pressed a button corresponding to the cell seen and the machine told you when you had recorded 100 cells. very neat i thought.

A.x

Re: White Cell Differential Calculation HELP!

sarah clarke — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:32:47 GMT

thanks that really does help me

why do they have to puy silly hard equations in books

thanks again x

Re: White Cell Differential Calculation HELP!

Sal the 1st — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:30:57 GMT

dont know if this will be of use or not ? I am not always the best at describing stuff but I will give it a go

using battlement technique and a good blood smear count 100 WBC and keep a tally of the different types

so if you saw ie 20 of a particular type it would be 20/100 or 20%

to calculate the absolute differential WBC count you would multiply the total WBC count by the percentage of that cell type

I hope I havnt just confused you more! - will dig out a lab book and see if they put it any clearer