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Bloody Minded

Bloody Minded Crew

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Frequency: 1 episode/8d. Total Eps: 101

Baffled by blood? Confused by coags? Traumatised by TTP? Planning on quitting medical school because you've just finished haem block? Join the registrars of the Bloody Minded Crew as they tour the world of haematology one topic at at a time while procrastinating from their day jobs.

Your time is precious, so to maximise your return we look at each topic at a variety of levels so you can tailor your learning. Check out more at www.bloodyminded.com.au

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Episode 61 - On The Wards: BiTE Me and other T Cell Tasty Treats

Season 1 · Episode 61

Tuesday, September 16, 2025 • Duration 53:12

Have you stumbled onto the haematology ward only to discover patients on bizarrely named BiTE & CART therapy? Why are we giving patients CARTs? Do they come with a horse? Why does everyone freak out when these patients are febrile? Why is everyone so hung up about handwriting? What are these weird drugs?

It's OK – we are here once more to demystify the acronyms – and help you know what we are giving, why we are giving it and how to manage complications of Bi-Specific and CAR-T therapy!

TIMESTAMPS

3:48 - Intro to BiTEs
5:26 - Intro to CAR-T
8:27 - Examples of BiTEs
16:36 - CAR-T Collection + Production
18:44 - Examples of CAR-T Products
19:35 - Similarities and Differences between BiTEs and CAR-T
23:24 - Cytokine Release Syndrome (CRS)
30:23 - Immune Effector Cell-Associated Neurotoxicity Syndrome (ICANS)
39:29 - Treatments for CRS
45:52 - Treatments for ICANS
50:01 - Take Home Messages

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Episode 60 - Twenty Pages About Basophils | Approach to Basophilia

Season 1 · Episode 60

Tuesday, September 2, 2025 • Duration 26:15

Bamboozled by basophils bountiful booty of granules? Let’s begin brilliantly with a basophil based bonanza. Buckets and buckets of brazenly basophil related bonus banter. You beauty! But, beware the bawdy, boisterous boys babbling brobdignagian-ly about BASOPHILS. It sounds better if you read it in Hugo Weaving’s voice and it’s the 5th of November I swear.

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3:07 - What are basophils?
6:54 - Snapping turtle trivia
7:55 - Role of basophils
9:42 - Basopenia
10:41 - Cutoffs (arbitrary as usual)
11:14 - Artefactual basophilia
12:29 - Reactive basophilia
14:27 - Haem Causes = MPNs Galore
16:14 - CML (Again)
19:17 - Zebras have hoofbeats too
23:20 - Take Home Messages

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Episode 59 - A Bad (eosino-)Feeling | Approach to Eosinophilia

Season 1 · Episode 59

Tuesday, August 26, 2025 • Duration 31:26

The mighty eosinophil had triumphed. The last parasitic worm lay vanquished beneath his granule-studded pseudopodia. For years, he’d battled helminthic scourge, a hero in mucus armor. But now, with no foes left to smite, he grew restless. He turned his sharp gaze to pollen, peanuts, and pet dander. "Troublemakers," he muttered, unsheathing his cytotoxic arsenal. With righteous zeal, he charged into the sinuses and skin, sparking sneezes and wheals in his wake. “A threat is a threat,” he declared, as a baffled immunoregulatory system looked on. The worms were gone - but the war had only just begun. With more excerpts leaking from the Bloody Minded Cinematic Universe, it’s only a matter of time until our movie deal.

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2:48 - What are eosinophils?
4:44 - Cutoffs (arbitrary as usual)
7:12 - The Problem with Eosinophilia
8:32 - Infective causes
9:32 - Medications
10:36 - Other Secondary Causes
12:32 - Haem Causes - CML and More
18:08 - Quick Recap
19:49 - Approach to eosinophilia
24:31 - Treatment options
25:52 - Case Study - Not Geraldine, I Promise
28:52 - Take Home Messages

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Episode 58 - Not even my final form | Approach to Monocytes

Season 1 · Episode 58

Tuesday, August 19, 2025 • Duration 24:33

Put on your monocles and kimonos and hop on the monorail to our episode composed of monotonous monologues, monogamously dedicated to that most monolithic and sometimes monoclonal of mononucleated cells. We are monobviously talking about the monocyte.

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0:57 - Mono-Cyte!
2:50 - What is a monocyte?
4:20 - Monocyte subclasses
6:00 - Role of monocytes
8:10 - Causes of Monocytopenia
9:43 - Hairy cell leukaemia
12:42 - Reactive monocytosis
15:10 - CMML - Not a Typo
22:20 - Take Home Messages

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Episode 57 - Running on Fumes | Approach to Pancytopenia

Season 1 · Episode 57

Tuesday, August 12, 2025 • Duration 47:46

Behold the field in which I grow my cells and see that it is barren. It’s out of the frying pan and into the aplastic fire with not a cell in sight. Join Nick, Cale and Bashar without two neutrophils to rub together as we talk about an approach to that most concerning of FBC features - pancytopenia.

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2:22 - Definition of pancytopenia
4:23 - Spurious pancytopenia
6:04 - Cutoffs (arbitrary as usual)
9:43 - Acquired aplastic anaemia
15:30 - Inherited bone marrow failure syndromes
18:52 - Environmental toxins
19:47 - Medications
20:52 - Haematinic deficiencies
25:59 - MDS/Leukaemias
30:54 - Marrow suppression
33:32 - Infiltrative causes
36:45 - Viral causes
38:05 - Approach to pancytopenia
39:06 - History
40:12 - Examination
41:13 - Investigations
42:27 - Liver failure
44:30 - Take Home Messages

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Episode 56 - Lymph and Let Die | Approach to Lymphocytosis

Season 1 · Episode 56

Tuesday, August 5, 2025 • Duration 43:29

Once again the Bloody Minded Crew have ventured out of the lab to find and trap another haematology registrar from the wards and convince them to come back to the show and talk about cells. Join haematology registrar Dr Lise Kempler as she teaches the team about what to do when that lymphocyte number just creeps up and up and up.

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2:34 - Aspiring to be a lymphocyte
5:44 - What are lymphocytes?
9:52 - Cutoffs (arbitrary as usual)
13:09 - Infective causes
15:21 - Morphological clues
17:23 - Investigations for infectious causes
17:54 - Flow cytometry
22:33 - Clues for Badness
23:34 - Case Studies
36:18 - T-LPDs
38:10 - ALL Out of Nowhere
40:54 - Take Home Messages

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Episode 55 - Too much of a good thing | Approaching Neutrophilia

Season 1 · Episode 55

Tuesday, July 29, 2025 • Duration 31:13

Whilst most of haematology is spent looking forlornly into the empty neutrophil cupboard like old Mother Hubbard post chemotherapy, the pendulum can also swing to the other extreme. Join us as we unpack the reactive and not-so-reactive causes of a neutrophilia so you don’t get too left-shifted on the wards.

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2:18 - Apologies to the Welsh
3:07 - Cutoffs (arbitrary as usual)
4:46 - Left-shift
7:02 - Spurious neutrophilia
7:44 - Reactive neutrophilia
9:09 - Steroids
13:33 - Leukemoid reaction
15:48 - Smoking
18:49 - Clues to MPNs
20:01 - Chronic myeloid leukaemia
23:11 - Other MPNs
24:06 - Chronic neutrophilic leukaemia
26:08 - MDS/MPN Overlaps
28:57 - Take Home Messages

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Episode 54 - You and What Army? | Approach to Neutropenia

Season 1 · Episode 54

Tuesday, July 22, 2025 • Duration 34:39

A lone neutrophil stands alone against a horde of gram negative bacteria. He is the last of his kind, the single granulocyte rising from the ashes of a marrow once verdant with haematopoiesis, now overrun with blasts. As the endotoxin rushes towards him, he smiles, for on the horizon he can see the glimmer of tazocin rushing through the blood vessels like Gandalf leading the Rohirrim to Helm’s Deep. While the Bloody Minded Cinematic Universe remains in pre-production, you can sate your appetite with a podcast on neutropenia for now.

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2:21 - Cutoffs (arbitrary as usual)
3:10 - An Overview of Granulopoiesis
5:24 - When is neutropenia urgent?
6:46 - History
7:32 - Examination
10:45 - Artefactual neutropenia
12:40 - Nutritional causes
13:43 - Infective causes
14:42 - Medications
16:22 - Marrow pathology
19:27 - Autoimmune causes
22:26 - Splenomegaly
22:52 - DANC
25:33 - Investigations
28:26 - Management
32:43 - Take Home Messages

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Episode 53 - PlateLOTS | Approaching Thrombocytosis

Season 1 · Episode 53

Tuesday, July 15, 2025 • Duration 34:05

There’s a problem with billionaires at the moment. Every day, you make a hundred billion platelets. For some in our society, even that colossal quantity isn’t nearly enough. They strive ever onward for even more. Unfettered platelet production all the time forever - after all the number can only go up. But mo’ platelets leads to mo’ problems. Go on a journey with Bashar, Nick and Cale to learn how some patients can become the Bezos of platelets and accumulate more than you can possibly need or want. Don’t let us stop you having a tacky wedding though.

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2:24 - Cutoffs (arbitrary as usual)
4:24 - Platelet biology
6:11 - TPO
7:53 - Spurious thrombocytosis
10:50 - Reactive thrombocytosis
12:30 - Blood loss and thrombocytosis
13:12 - TPO Kinetics
16:00 - Iron deficiency and thrombocytosis
19:10 - Hyposplenism
20:03 - Drugs
21:54 - MPNs
23:53 - Molecular Testing
25:27 - Clots AND Bleeds?!
26:58 - A General Approach
29:17 - Can we test TPO?
30:29 - Case Study
31:44 - Take Home Messages

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Episode 52 - Scraping the barrel | Approach to thrombocytopenia

Season 1 · Episode 52

Tuesday, July 8, 2025 • Duration 46:36

Are you a platelet that has been conjugated to an antibody? Sequestered in a spleen? Diluted out by too much saline? Had your precious gold stolen from you? Then you might be entitled to thrombensation! Listen to this episode to learn how we can help YOU approach thrombocytopenia.

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2:23 - Striking gold where you least expect it
4:40 - Definition of thrombocytopaenia
8:06 - What do platelets do?
9:22 - History for thrombocytopaenia
12:20 - Exam for thrombocytopaenia
18:03 - Artefactual thrombocytopaenia
21:28 - Decreased platelet production
24:46 - Increased platelet consumption
24:55 - ITP
27:43 - APLS
28:15 - HIT
29:45 - Thrombotic microangiopathies
32:09 - Redistribution/Sequestration
33:41 - Dilutional causes
34:35 - Pregnancy-Related Causes
39:23 - Investigations
42:05 - Platelet Transfusion Thresholds
44:36 - Take Home Messages

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