Palko's Medical Laboratory Procedures 3rd Edition by Danielle Wilken, Phyllis Cox

Exercise 44

In the POL where you work, you are responsible for doing blood counts. How would you respond to each of the following situations and why?

a. In the first square you count on the hemacytometer, there are 30 white blood cells and in the second there are 45.

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b. There appears to be an air bubble under one corner of the hemacytometer coverslip.

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