As a laboratory technician how can you deal with the hemorrhagic fluids in cytopathology laboratory?
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Frankly hemorrhagic fluids are centrifuged like all fluids and fish tailed smears made from the sediment of the centrifuged deposit.
Alternatively, if very hemorrhagic, smears can be air dried and then flooded with normal saline for 30 seconds. This causes layes of red cells, smears are than air dried or wet fixed and stained by pap and Giemsa stains respectively.