Laboratory Procedures for Medical Office Personnel

This full-color resource offers a comprehensive introduction to the medical and clinical laboratory. It gives clear, beautifully illustrated, step-by-step instructions on all aspects of laboratory bench procedures. The text guides readers from the initial physician's order through specimen collection, processing, testing, reporting, maintenance, quality control, and quality assurance. Provides pedagogical aids such as charts, lists of tests, and guidelines for easy review.

Covers topics not addressed in similar texts, such as toxicology, parasitology, anatomical pathology, epidemiology, and medico-legal procedures.

Presents material about special procedures such as chemiluminescence, as well as information on hematology, chemistry, microbiology, immunohematology/blood banking, serology, toxicology/blood testing, coagulation, and urinalysis.

Provides pedagogical aids such as charts, lists of tests, and guidelines for easy review.

Illustrates procedures step-by-step using full-colour photographs--almost all taken in working laboratories.

Offers information on mycology, parasitology, virology, and mycobacteriology in reference to AIDS.