CIE Flashcards
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
ISAAC NEWTON
WILLIAM HYDE WOLLASTON
AUGUST BEER
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BEERS LAW
MANUAL METHODS
SIMPLE INSTRUMENTS
EARLY 20th CENTURY
AUTOMATION begins
Expansion of techniques
MID 20th CENTURY
ADVANCEMENT IN TECHNOLOGIES
INTEGRATION OF COMPUTERS
LATE 20th CENTURY
HIGH throughput and precision medicine
21st Century
official document of result
REPORT
DATA GENERATED by the machine
RESULT
process or procedure that is performed by the combined activities of MedTech and Machine
Semi Automation
is a quantitative science that is
concerned with measurement of amounts of
biologically important substances (called analytes)
in body fluids.
Clinical chemistry
y section performs determinations
of the numbers and characteristics of the formed
elements in the blood (red blood cells, white blood
cells, and platelets) as well as tests of the function
of physiological systems in the blood (clotting
studies
hematology
section performs test procedure
on culture and susceptibility testing and differential
stain like gram stain and acid fast to determine
whether pathological microorganisms are present
microbiology
section performs scientific
analysis of non-blood body fluids such as urine and
stool.
Clinical Microscopy
section processes and
store blood to ensure that blood products are safe
before they are used in blood transfusion. Blood
banking includes typing the blood for compatibility
and testing for infectious diseases
blood bank/Serology
the delivery of a specimen
to the pathology laboratory initiates a complex
series of events resulting in a pathologic
diagnosis/interpretation.
Histopathology section