Juliet Smith 🅰️➕

@UHB_transfusion Lead Transfusion Practitioner. Work with blood, bit of a geek. @AstonBusiness MBA student. Mother of boys 🐉🐉🐉. All views my own.

[Juliet Smith 🅰️➕ @TransfusionGeek]

@tenchi71 @hgggrA @MeltedDollParts @Sturgeons_Law I’m British. As kids in the 90s we had to line up at school to be given the Heaf test then, if you didn’t react, the TB vaccine, in the following weeks we would be comparing scars. I’m a nurse and have to keep a record of my vaccine history.

[Juliet Smith 🅰️➕ @TransfusionGeek]

@tenchi71 @hgggrA @MeltedDollParts @Sturgeons_Law The smallpox vaccine program was discontinued globally by 1986 due to WHO declaring smallpox eradicated in 1980. It’s only really used for research these days.

[Juliet Smith 🅰️➕ @TransfusionGeek]

@hgggrA @MeltedDollParts @Sturgeons_Law I knew a nurse who was off work for a year because of how ill she was after she caught TB from a patient. I know what I’d prefer.

[Juliet Smith 🅰️➕ @TransfusionGeek]

@hgggrA @MeltedDollParts @Sturgeons_Law Yes.

[Juliet Smith 🅰️➕ @TransfusionGeek]

@SisterStokes1 @AstonBusiness @AstonUniversity Haha thanks 🤣

[Juliet Smith 🅰️➕ @TransfusionGeek]

@wmcareteam Poisoning (contaminated compressed air, incorrectly maintained rebreathers, contaminated water), flora/fauna injuries (bites, scrapes, stings etc.), exacerbation of any existing medical condition (undiagnosed on medical or developed since).

[Juliet Smith 🅰️➕ @TransfusionGeek]

@wmcareteam Drowning, nitrogen narcosis (reverts on ascension, if you make it that far), pulmonary barotrauma (pneumothorax/surgical emphysema), gas emboli (decompression sickness), any injury which could be caused by slippery surfaces, working with machinery or compressed gasses.

[Juliet Smith 🅰️➕ @TransfusionGeek]

@wmcareteam It’s Stoney Cove, Leicestershire. I live in Stoney Stanton, about a mile away. My first job was here when I was 15, and my first experiences of emergency medicine, though that was drowning/decompression injuries. We had a hyperbaric chamber then too.

[Juliet Smith 🅰️➕ @TransfusionGeek]

We had one of these (empty tube not HbA1c) arrive in blood bank. TPs were dispatched to go find the “bleeder” to discover them pre labelling the tube at the desk… again.

Pre labelling makes you look like a plonker when you send an empty tube to the lab but it can be deadly…

[Anas Nasir @BloodScientist]

Received a sample for HbA1c analysis. I just can't see what's missing 🤔

#LabLife #BiomedicalScientist #FunnyThingsAtWork

[Juliet Smith 🅰️➕ @TransfusionGeek]

@MikeWhi29270353 @Dr_BellaR Donation intervals are designed to help prevent this by giving a sufficient period between donations to recover. This is why men (who do not typically have periods) can donate more frequently than women.

Also, more on iron in blood donors here… https://t.co/Hzj8zlEIp6

[Juliet Smith 🅰️➕ @TransfusionGeek]

Due to life and work getting in the way I had to put my studies on hold but am now in the process of wrapping this up.

Anyone who can share info on how they use remote issue, or why they don’t, I’d love to hear from you, but I will be closing soon!

[Juliet Smith 🅰️➕ @TransfusionGeek]

I have extended my research on remote issue to also investigate why organisations have not implemented it.

Takes 10 minutes to complete the survey!

Existing Users - https://t.co/aMqZqvvin5
Non-Users - https://t.co/0kS4PMvr8z

[Juliet Smith 🅰️➕ @TransfusionGeek]

@drkeithsiau Had this. Still jokingly chide my ex-bf (now best friend) for trying to poison me 🤣 (He’d bought the fish and brought it straight home and cooked it, then I’d chosen which plate, but it’s always going to be his “fault”)

[Juliet Smith 🅰️➕ @TransfusionGeek]

@TeamCaptainJohn I read in the notes of a patient how the clinical team had consulted one of our haematologists, they had documented his exact response that the proposed dose of plasma was “homeopathic”.

[John Sherbeck MD @TeamCaptainJohn]

Hey #MedTwitter #MedX please remember to report ***ALL*** suspected transfusion reactions to your hospital transfusion service.

Not only is the the right thing to do; not only are you required to do; not only can it save the life of your patient; NOT doing it can harm others

[Juliet Smith 🅰️➕ @TransfusionGeek]

@Dr_Done_ Samples should be labelled at the bedside from the patient’s ID band in one uninterrupted process to prevent the risk of mislabelled tubes…

[UHB Pathology @UHBPathology]

It’s not every day that you find a hedgehog under one of the chemistry analysers. Hedgehog successfully released back into the wild, no spikes found in results!

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[Juliet Smith 🅰️➕ @TransfusionGeek]

Transfusion professionals please could you spare 3 minutes to complete our survey on transfusion requesting on your Trust/hospital.

Many thanks!

https://t.co/bokr1l6Nw5

[Juliet Smith 🅰️➕ @TransfusionGeek]

@drkeithsiau A gastric bug…