Day 27 🧪 Welcome back to 30 Days of ASCP: Ratchet Study Tips 🤪🤏🏽🤏🏽🤏🏽 Today we’re breaking down Hodgkin vs Non-Hodgkin lymphoma so you stop second-guessing yourself. Hodgkin lymphoma is defined by the presence of Reed-Sternberg cells and typically spreads in an orderly, contiguous patternfrom one lymph node group to the next, often with a strong association with EBV. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is much more variable: multiple subtypes, wider age range, frequent extranodal involvement, and no pre

Day 21 🧪 Welcome back to 30 Days of ASCP: Ratchet Study Tips 🤪🤏🏽🤏🏽🤏🏽 Today we’re tackling Westgard rules: the lab’s official cheating detector for QC. 1-2s is the “yellow flag,” not enough evidence to call it, just keep an eye on the situation. 2-2s means we’ve got a pattern, not an accident, stop the run. 1-3s is the hard evidence moment… the instrument lied, results are rejecting. R-4s is emotional whiplash, one control high, the other low, something internal is off. 4-1s means four sm

Welcome back to 30 Days of ASCP: Make It Make Sense Series, because once you get it, you never forget it. Day 1/30: Today is World AIDS Day, so let’s break down how someone is actually diagnosed with AIDS from the laboratory perspective. A person is first screened for HIV using a 4th-generation antigen/antibody test, which detects HIV-1, HIV-2, and the p24 antigen. If that test is positive, we move to an HIV-1/HIV-2 differentiation assay to determine which virus is present. If that result comes

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