A is the activating eventâthe event that triggers stress or worry. It might be a crisis in a personal relationship, a speech to be given, chronic lack of confidence, job dissatisfaction, or sexual problems...anything that sends a person to a counselor. Like Rogers, Ellis was willing to tackle any problem.
Historically, a low hemoglobin level of 8g/dL was set as a critical value in the SBMF system. However, in response to information from many sources, including recent transfusion medicine. literature, the critical value for hemoglobin will be reset to 7g/dL.
When lipemia interferes with hemoglobin determination, multiple approaches are commonly used to report the complete blood count. The first is to report only the hematocrit, RBC, MCV, WBC, and platelet count and indicate that an accurate Hb is not available due to lipemia, and suggest repeating the tests after the patient has fasted at least two to three hours.