CLINICAL LABORATORY AND ITS LAWS Flashcards
CLASSIFICATION BASED ON OWNERSHIP
Government-owned
Private owned
CLASSIFICATION BASED ON FUNCTION
CLINICAL PATHOLOGY FUNCTION
CLINICAL ANATOMIC FUNCTION
Clinical chemistry, hematology, immunohematology, microbiology, immunology, clinical microscopy, serology, endocrinology, molecular biology, cytogenetics, toxicology and therapeutic drug monitoring.
CLINICAL PATHOLOGY FUNCTION
surgical, immunology, histopathologic, cytologic autopsy procedure, forensic and molecular pathologic techniques.
CLINICAL ANATOMIC FUNCTION
CLASSIFICATION BASED ON INSTITUTIONAL CHARACTER
Institution-based clinical laboratory
Free standing clinical laboratory
laboratories operates within the premise and as part of an institution, such as hospital, clinic, school or a medical facility.
Institution-based clinical laboratory
Laboratories with no affinity with any other institutions
Free standing clinical laboratory
CLASSIFICATION BASED ON SERVICE CAPACITY
Primary clinical Laboratories
Secondary clinical laboratories
Tertiary clinical laboratories
offer standard laboratory procedure, such as, hematology, urinalysis, fecalysis and blood typing.
Primary clinical Laboratories
provide the minimum service capabilities of a primary laboratory with added services such as routine chemistry analysis, cross matching, gram staining and KOH.
Secondary clinical laboratories
provide the service capabilities of a secondary laboratory with the addition of the following services, special chemistry procedures, special hematology including coagulation procedure, immunology and culture and sensitivity
Tertiary clinical laboratories
Those that handle organisms which are classified by the WHO as risk group 1
Unlikely to cause human disease.
Wear a standard PPE such as gloves, mask and laboratory gown
Special containment systems are not required
BIOSAFETY LEVEL 1 LABORATORIES
Handle a broad spectrum of moderaterisk agents, associated with human disease with different degrees of severity.
Process human derived specimens such as blood, body fluids, tissues and some human cell lines with organism causing the disease is unknown.
Standard PPE, with secondary barriers such as sink, waste decontamination facilities ( ex: autoclave) to reduce transmission of biohazard waste and a biosafety cabinet
BIOSAFETY LEVEL 2 LABORATORIES
Handle Risk group 3 organisms- indigenous or exotic agents with the potential to be transmitted via respiratory routes and can cause severe or fatal infection
All procedure should be done in a biosafety cabinet with a gas-tight aerosol generation chamber.
Access to the laboratory is controlled to prevent potentially infectious aerosols from escaping to the environment
BIOSAFETY LEVEL 3 LABORATORIES
Handles extremely dangerous and exotic agents that can be transmitted through the air, no available vaccine or therapeutic cure.
Personnel are required to wear full body, air supplied positive pressure suits.
Provide a specialized ventilation and waste management system, and operates in a separate building.
BIOSAFETY LEVEL 4 LABORATORIES
Not associated with disease in healthy adult or animals
RG1