Day 6🧪Welcome back to 30 Days of ASCP: Make It Make Sense because once you get it, you never forget it. A left shift simply means the bone marrow is pushing out younger neutrophils to meet a high demand, usually from infection, inflammation, or stress. When bands, metas, and even myelocytes start showing up in circulation, that’s your clue the marrow is working overtime. The more immature the cells, the stronger the response. Comment PASS to pass the ASCP exam. 🧪🔬 | Marilyn Claire

Day 9 🧪 Welcome to 30 Days of ASCP: Ratchet Study Tips🤪🤏🏽🤏🏽🤏🏽 Today we’re finally clearing up reactive lymphocytes vs monocytes: the cells everybody loves to mix up on diff counts. The secret is chromatin first: reactive lymphs usually have fine chromatin and may show a visible nucleolus(especially immunoblasts), but not all reactive lymphs will have one, so don’t rely on that alone. They often have light to pale blue cytoplasm that hugs surrounding RBCs. Monocytes do not have nucleoli,

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