Join our webinar “Those Sticky, Tricky platelets – Solving the Puzzle of Platelet Clumping”

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Sysmex America will host a webinar titled “Those sticky, tricky platelets—solving the puzzle of platelet clumping” on Oct. 20, beginning at 12 pm Central time. The session will review methods for performing platelet counts as part of a CBC. The presenter, Becky Socha, MS, MLS(ASCP)^CM, BB(ASCP)^CM, of Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, will discuss scenarios for handling specimens with thrombocytopenia and how to troubleshoot EDTA-induced pseudothrombocytopenia.

Other objectives of the webinar include how to recognize normal and abnormal platelet histograms and scattergrams, and how to recognize spurious versus abnormal platelet results and how to troubleshoot them.