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Day 9 🧪 Welcome back to 30 Days of ASCP: Make It Make Sense, because once you get it, you never forget it. Elution and adsorption are both used to separate antibodies from red blood cells, but they serve different purposes. Elution is used when an antibody is already attached to the patient’s red cells; we strip it off to identify what that antibody is, which is especially important in cases like positive DATs or hemolytic disease of the newborn. Adsorption is used when antibodies are free in t

Welcome back to 30 Days of ASCP: Ratchet Study Tips 😈😜🍆 If malaria classifications keep slipping out of your brain, here’s the most unhinged way to remember the four Plasmodium cousins, and trust me, once you hear it like this, you’ll never forget it. 🦟Falciparum: the cousin with the eggplant-shaped gametocyte 🍆 and multiple rings. 🦟 Vivax: the ghosty, amoeba-shaped cousin 👻🫟 who prefers young RBCs. 🦟 Malariae: the older cougar cousin with the classic band-form trophs (band for band 🗣️

Day 18 🧪 Welcome back to 30 Days of ASCP: Ratchet Study Tips 🤪🤏🏽🤏🏽🤏🏽 Today we’re locking in the major Candida species so you stop treating them like they’re all the same. Candida albicans is germ tube POSITIVE and forms chlamydospores: super easy ID. Candida glabrata keeps it simple with small yeast and blastoconidia only: no germ tubes, no pseudohyphae. Candida tropicalis forms multiple blastoconidia and shows up in more invasive infections. Candida parapsilosis makes elongated pseudohy