Lab Best Practice - Archives
Reference Intervals: The Process to Verify Outside Sources
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, HHS stipulate that a written procedure manual be available, and followed, by all laboratory personal. One key aspect of these standardized procedure manuals are test ....
Read MoreVitamin D: Its Physiology, Testing and Relationship with COVID-19
The discovery and importance of vitamin D was first revealed in 1919 when Sir Edward Mellanby successfully reproduced a nutritional disease known as rickets by feeding dogs oatmeal and keeping these dogs from...
Read MoreReconstituted Whole Blood Transfusion Exchange in Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia
The blood bank occasionally will receive requests for a transfusion exchange in a neonate with hyperbilirubinemia. Neonates with hyperbilirubinemia may necessitate hospital admissions with approximately 5-10% of all
Read MoreComparison of SARS-CoV-2 Specimen Types: Nasal Swabs, Nasopharyngeal Swabs and Beyond
The nasopharyngeal (NP) swab serves as the primary specimen type for respiratory molecular pathogen detection. During the novel coronavirus infectious disease (COVID) pandemic of 2019, the NP swab became the
Read MoreRole of Quantitative Serology Testing for COVID-19
The current pandemic has led to considerable interest in COVID-19 related laboratory testing. The widespread distribution of the various vaccines, the emerging genetic variants of SARS-CoV-2 circulating around the
Read MoreAn Overview of Prosthetic Joint Infection (PJI) Definition and Diagnosis
The numbers of primary total hip and knee arthroplasties have been increasing over time, with 332,000 total hip and 719,000 total knee arthroplasties performed in 2010 in the United States.
Read MoreHepatitis B Serologic Testing Methods
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) was first discovered in 1965. Briefly, HBV is a DNA virus from the Hepadnaviridae family which is spread via contaminated body fluids. After exposure, the virus enters hepatocytes and .....
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