IN THE NAME OF GOD

Introduction to laboratory instrumentation

Medical decision making

• Medical history taking

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• Physical examination

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• Clinical pathology or laboratory medicine

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• Radiological studies

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• Surgical pathology diagnosis

Laboratory medicine functions

• To diagnose

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• To screen

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• To monitor

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• Prognosis

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• Therapeutic manipulation

Quality assurance in lab medicine

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• Preanalytical phase

Requisition, Patient preparation, specimen collection, specimen handling

• Analytical phase

Human resources, instrumentation, methodologies, physical environment, management

• Post analytical phase

HIS and IT, interpretation, relationships for diagnosis

Methodologist

• Spectrophotometry
• Immunoassay
• Turbidometry
• Nephelometry
• Flame photometry
• Flurometery
• Electrophoresis
• Potentiometery
• Chromatography
• etc

Routine lab instrumens

• Hematology sysmex cell counter
• Chemistry autoanalyzer
• Flame photometer & ISE instruments
• ELISA and RIA
• Nephelometery
• Electrophoresis
• HPLC
• Flow cytometery
• etc