A patient who has been prescribed combination chemotherapy today has a total white blood cell (WBC) count of 5 cells/mm3, a lymphocyte count of 2.2 cells/mm3,
a segmented neutrophil count of 1.8 cells/mm3, a basophil count of 0.15 cells/mm3, an eosinophil count of 250 cells/mm3, and a band neutrophil count of 0.6 cells/mm3 . What does the nurse calculate as the absolute neutrophil count (ANC)?
_____ cells/mm3
2400
Calculate the ANC by adding the number of segmented neutrophils and band neutrophils togeth-er, then multiplying the total by 1000 . In this case, the WBC differential shows 1.8 segmented neutrophils and 0.6 band neutrophils; the total is 2.4 multiplied by 1000, or 2400 cells/mm3 .
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