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• Title:Understanding laboratory investigations for nurses and health professionals / Chris Higgins.
  
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• Author/Creator:Higgins, Chris, FIBMS.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; Ames, Iowa : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QY25 .H544 2007
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Diagnosis, Laboratory.
  Nurses.
  Allied health personnel.
  
• Medical Subjects: Laboratory Techniques and Procedures--Nurses' Instruction.
  
• Edition:2nd ed.
  
• Description:ix, 358 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  
• ISBN:1405131276 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  9781405131278 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Ch. 1. Introduction to clinical laboratories
  Ch. 2. Some principles of laboratory testing
  Ch. 3. Blood glucose
  Ch. 4. Serum/plasma sodium and potassium
  Ch. 5. Serum/plasma urea and creatinine and creatinine clearance
  Ch. 6. Serum/plasma calcium and phosphate
  Ch. 7. Blood gases
  Ch. 8. Serum/plasma cholesterol and triglycerides
  Ch. 9. Cardiac markers
  Ch. 10. Thyroid function tests
  Ch. 11. Liver function tests : alanine transferase (ALT), gamma glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT), alkaline phosphatase (AP), bilirubin and albumin
  Ch. 12. Serum/plasma amylase
  Ch. 13. Drug overdose : paracetamol and salicylate
  Ch. 14. Therapeutic drug monitoring : lithium, digoxin and theophylline
  Ch. 15. Full blood count 1 : red blood cell count, haemoglobin and other red cell indices
  Ch. 16. Full blood count 2 : white cell count and differential
  Ch. 17. Tests of haemostasis : platelet count, prothrombin time (PT), activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) and thrombin time (TT)
  Ch. 18. Laboratory investigation of anaemia : iron, total iron binding capacity (TIBC), ferritin, B[subscript 12] and folate
  Ch. 19. Erythrocyte sedimentation rate and C-reactive protein
  Ch. 20. Blood group, antibody screen and crossmatch
  Ch. 21. Urine microscopy, culture and sensitivity
  Ch. 22. Blood culture
  Ch. 23. Cervical ('pap') smear test
  Ch. 24. Dipstick testing of urine.