The Rid System: The Rai System

To identify red blood cells, basophils, eosinophils, monocytes, lymphocytes, neutrophils, sickle cell anemia and leukemia.

1. A 54-year-old patient is seen by the physician in the outpatient clinic setting for CLL that is currently in remission. The patient's WBC counts, particularly lymphocytes remain within normal limits

ANA: test for these autoantibodies (very general); DsDNA (+): Making antibodies to and attacking own DNA; Anti-Sm (+): these antibodies generally interfere with the cells metabolism and are responsible for the symptoms specifically seen with SLE. Here, they are specifically targeted at smooth muscle. CRP elevated: also indicates presence of inflammation, but is more specific towards disease activity; ESR elevated: indirectly indicates the activity of the disease and presence of inflammation; C3 and C4 (decreased): C3 and C4 usually attack the membranes of viruses and bacteria, but in the case of lupus, they attack the own body’s cells. When C3 and C4 suggest the disease is active

SLE is a systemic autoimmune disease, where the body’s immune system wrongly attacks healthy tissue, and affects many of the internal organs in the body. SLE is most likely to damage the heart, skin, lungs, kidneys, joints, blood vessels, liver, and nervous system. SLE is a chronic inflammatory disease understood to be type III hypersensitivity responses, with some type II hypersensitivity involvement. Jillian’s complete blood count revealed she has low red blood cell and hemoglobin levels. Her result was 2.8 cells/mcL while the reference range is 3.90-5.03 cells/mcL for red blood cell count and 10.0 g/dL while the reference range is 12.0-15.5 g/dL for hemoglobin, resulting in anemia. With Type II hypersensitivity and hemolytic anemia, IgM antibodies bind to red blood cells and causes the agglutination of the red blood cells, resulting in a low red blood cell count. Hemolytic anemia explains Jillian’s symptoms of fatigue and shortness of breath. An indirect consequence of hemolytic anemia is the splenomegaly and pre-hepatic jaundice. The red blood cell breakdown and excretion of bilirubin resulted in Jillian’s high bilirubin total count in the blood chem panel, her value was 2.1 MG/DL when the average reference range is 0.2-1.3 MG/DL. With type III hypersensitivity immune

Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) facilities in the United States that perform laboratory testing on human specimens for health assessment or the diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of disease are regulated under the Waived tests. Although CLIA have a low risk for erroneous results, but CLIA is not completely error-proof. Errors can occur anywhere in the testing process. Sometimes CLIA have errors in the manufacturer's instructions are not followed and when testing personnel.

Casto and Forrestal (2015) state that accurate coding of diagnoses and procedures and healthcare information abstraction are important in determining the appropriate MS-DRG assignment. When invalid codes are submitted on the patient claim form, there are two MS-DRGs that can be assigned, the MS-DRG 998, listed as Principal Diagnosis Invalid as

Historical context and comedic elements often are perceived to be terms that do not usually go hand in hand when it comes to literary works. However, authors like Jonathan Safran Foer have attempted to seamlessly piece these concepts together through works like Everything is Illuminated, which combines the story of a young man who travels back to Ukraine in search of his ancestors with the history of the Holocaust. Writers who attempt to address or incorporate the Holocaust into their stories are faced with a divide between “the relatively comfortable Jewish American present” and “the dark European past” (Belham 56). Although some might criticize Foer for his usage of slapstick and comedy with such tragic events, the stark contrast of his dark

Why does Jay Gatsby pursue Daisy Buchanan with incomparable persistence? One might say it’s because Daisy is beautiful. It could be because Daisy’s from Louisville and Gatsby has a thing for Kentuckian girls. Maybe it’s because Daisy drives a nice car. Gatsby could just love girls named after flowers. Though there are countless reasons Gatsby could pursue Daisy, the reason Gatsby endlessly chases Daisy is because she represents everything he hopes to achieve. She has wealth and is an upper class citizen. Gatsby believes she is the key to his own wealth and success in life. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald suggests that Gatsby ties his dreams and visions of success to Daisy. This is seen in the novel’s play on religious ideals and Gatsby’s idealization of Daisy.

According to the criteria, a complete response is obtained when there is a complete disappearance of all detectable clinical and radiographic evidence of disease and disease related symptoms; all lymph nodes have returned to normal size; the spleen has regressed in size; and the bone marrow is cleared of lymphoma.

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Idan Raichel is known to be one of the most influential and powerful musicians in the Middle East. He is missioned to break down barriers currently affecting the residents of the region, because if you take a look across today's Middle East, it's easy to lose hope in the possibility of peace. Whether it’s the random bus bombing in Jerusalem, the Syrian- Conflict, or the increasingly dangerous streets of Iraq, the region in becoming more and more unstable and starved for progress. Sometimes hope hides in the most unlikely of places.

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Blood sampling is also useful, and protein and cell levels can be used to calculate a LRINEC score. LRINEC stands for Laboratory Risk Indicator for Necrotizing Fasciitis and is a great tool for distinguishing common skin infections from necrotizing fasciitis. In addition, its score is used to determine if immediate surgical debridement is necessary. Measurements included in the LRINEC score is C-reaction protein, white blood cell count, hemoglobin, sodium, creatinine, and glucose (16).

CLL is diagnosed with a physical exam, including a complete history, and blood & bone marrow tests. Many types of blood and bone marrow tests can be performed including:

only a supporting role to the Police and Metropolitan Guards in the counterinsurgency, was ordered into action. They relied on mass arrests, torture to allegedly gain info on Tupamaros, and large cordon-and-search operations, where warrants weren’t needed. This was done to those allegedly accused of politically motivated crimes. The tortures consisted of: deprivation of water and food, prohibition to take care of psychological needs in the usual places, wrenching of limbs, use of handcuff and even having their heads submerged under water until they began to suffocate. The use of electrical needles, burning genital organs and anus, with cigarettes, were other accounts of torture. These brutalities had been practiced on innocent people who had yet to be tried in court.