PMLS_LEC1 Flashcards
Application of procedures, information, and devices to develop highly sophisticated solutions to medical problems or issues such as the prevention of disease or promotion and monitoring of good health.
MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE
Refers to the diagnostics or therapeutic application of science and technology to improve the management of health conditions.
MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE
Combines the challenges of medicine, the
basic sciences of biology and chemistry,
and the clinical sciences into a very
satisfying professional career.
MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE
It is an applied science as it employs scientific
investigation to come up with a diagnostic finding.
MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE
The work that Medical Laboratory Scientists do can help diagnose _____of the patients with the different laboratory tests we perform. what percent
60% to 70%
→ Examine blood and other body fluids
microscopically
→ Perform pre-transfusion testing on patients
and donors
MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENTISTS
→ Make cultures of body fluids and tissue
sample to determine the presence of bacteria,
fungi, parasites, or other microorganisms
→ Perform analysis for chemical content and
determine the concentrations of compounds
such as blood glucose and cholesterol levels
MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENTISTS
Uses sophisticated biomedical technologies and scientific methodologies to test patients’ blood or tissues and body fluids.
THE CLINICAL LABORATORY
→ Quantitative science that deals with the measuring of
the amounts of analytes (important body substances)
in body fluids.
→ Testing or chemical analysis of the concentration of
glucose, cholesterol, vitamins, electrolytes, proteins,
drugs, and other analytes in the body.
Clinical Chemistry
→ Study of blood and blood disorders.
→ Microscopic examination of blood.
Hematology
→ Examine urine and other body fluids microscopically.
→ Urinalysis and Fecal Analysis
Clinical Microscopy
→ Determine the appropriate blood products that can
be transfused to an individual and to procure a safe
blood supply.
→ This is where blood transfusion is processed.
→ Antigen-Antibody testing and blood products for
transfusion
Immunohematology
→ Uses Antigen-Antibody testing for determination of
infection
→ The importance of vaccines and how they work can be
found here
Immunology and Serology
→ The study and diagnosis of diseases of the tissue.
→ Microscopic examination of tissue in order to examine
any signs of disease.
→ Studies tissues through biopsy on a cellular level.
→ Testing for cancer and metastasis from the cells.
Histopathology
→ Studies the Cellular and Chemical components of
bacteria, parasites, viruses, and etc.
→ Uses state of the art instrumentation to generate
accurate identification of these organisms
→ Identification and growing of bacteria
Microbiology and Molecular Biology
