Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to E Haley.
In 1990, Canadian hospitals reported 30,487 time-loss injuries. Fifty-three percent were sustained by nurses. Almost half were back injuries. Back injury is now recognized as one of the major reasons for ill-health retirement from nursing. Not only is it the most frequent injury sustained by nurses. It also is the most debilitating.
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The author reports the experience of the central laboratory of the Genesee Hospital with the Larc apparatus. This is a 427 bed hospital and the laboratory does 100 to 350 differential white counts daily. The reproducibility of the Larc differential, the correlation with the results obtained manually, and the utility of the Larc in the central laboratory are discussed.
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