Medical laboratory procedures
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Medical laboratory procedures
F.A. Davis, c1998
2nd ed
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Focusing on medical laboratory procedures, this text covers specimen collection and transport, safety and infection control, quality assurance and control, and all the clinical laboratory procedures performed by the medical assistant. Each chapter begins with a list of psychomotor, cognitive and affective objectives. For each category of tests, the introductory chapter provides a brief overview of the medical science and clinical applications. Each procedural chapter explains each step of the process and the scientific basis of the procedure and offers technical tips and guides for patient education.
Table of Contents
- Unit 1 Fundamentals of laboratory practice: introduction to laboratory practice
- safety and infection control
- legal and ethical considerations
- quality assurance and quality control
- instrumentation. Unit 2 Specimen collection: introduction to specimen collection and transport
- collection of urine specimens
- collection of blood specimens
- collection of microbial specimens. Unit 3 Urinalysis: introduction to urinalysis procedures
- physical assessment of urine
- chemical analysis of urine
- microscopic examiniation of urine. Unit 4 Clinical haematology and chemistry: introduction to haematology
- haemoglobin
- microhaematocrit
- blood cell counts
- blood smear preparation and differential blood count
- erythrocyte sedimentation rate
- introduction to clinical chemistry
- blood glucose testing. Unit 5 Microbiology and immunology: introduction to microbiology
- bacterial smear preparation and gram stain
- introduction to immunology
- streptococci testing
- pregnancy testing
- infectious mononucleosis testing
- rheumatoid arthritis testing. Appendices: OSHA precautions in collection of specimens
- abbreviations in clinical medicine
- reference ranges
- symbols for OSHA bloodborne pathogen exposure controls applicable to clinical procedures
- 1990 DACUM analysis of the medical assisting profession.
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