Medical laboratory technology, vol. 1: / a procedure manual for routine diagnostic tests
Chief editor: Kanai L. Mukherjee
- New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill, 1988.
- xvi, 481p: ill.
Volume 1 of Set of 3 volumes
Contents Section I: INTRODUCTION Human health and medical care in developing countries -- Organization of the clinical laboratory and the role of medical laboratory technicians -- Safety regulations, first aid and clinical laboratory records -- Introduction to laboratory equipment and basic laboratory operations -- General comments on specimen collection -- Units of measurement -- Quality control of laboratory findings Section II HAEMATOLOGY Introduction to haematology -- Specimen collection and laboratory preparation in haematology -- Routine heaematology tests -- Special haematology tests -- Interpretation of laboratory findings in haematology -- Introduction to haemostasis and coagulation -- Laboratory investigation of bleeding disorders. Section III IMMUNOHAEMATOLOGY OR BLOOD BANKING Principles of immunohaematology and clinical significance of blood transfusion -- Collection and processing of blood for tranfusion -- Routine laboratory procedures in blood bank -- Transfusion reactions and haemolytic disease of he newborn