Description

The Clinical Chemistry laboratory provides routine and state of the art specialized assays for patient care. The laboratory is open and staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and tests of an urgent nature are available around the clock. One or more of the laboratory directors are available at all times for consultation and to facilitate use of the laboratory's services. Clinical Chemistry laboratories generate over three million test results a year, offering assays for nearly 200 different clinically important constituents. Assays are carried out using a wide variety of techniques ranging from fully automated instruments to high performance liquid chromatography and tandem mass spectrometry. This book of “Clinical chemistry and its recent laboratory techniques” should give the students theoretical-practical information to understand the fundamentals and the techniques at the basis of the biochemical analyses performed in the clinical laboratories. The different modules of this course analyse and integrate molecular and executive aspects concerning Human Systematic Biochemistry, Clinical Biochemistry, Radioimmunology and Clinical Chemical Techniques learning.