ML 225 - Lab for ML 224

Credit Hours: 1.0

Laboratory exercises on hospital and capillary collection specimens including the use of point of care instrumentation, introduction to state-of-the-art instruments, special procedures, coagulation testing and case studies of a variety of blood dyscrasias using critical thinking skills. Effective evaluations must be satisfactory.

Course Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

correctly perform multiple semi-automated hemoglobin determinations using HemoPoint and microhematocrits within 60 minutes and obtain values within a specified range of hospital results;
correctly perform specialized tests such as the Reticulocyte Count and Dispette ESR within 60 minutes;
calculate reticulocyte counts, corrected reticulocyte counts, absolute values, corrected white blood cell (WBC) and red blood cell (RBC) indices, and correlate values recognizing possible errors;
relate values to bone marrow activity;
identify normal/abnormal parameters of the procedures performed;
relate major disease states causing abnormal parameters;
use quality control as indicated for selected tests;
list the usefulness of a stained blood film as a quality control tool for the correlation of indices, white blood cell counts, and platelet count parameters;
complete case study portfolios on selected non-malignant and malignant dyscrasias of the erythrocyte, leukocyte, and coagulation systems;
identify follow-up and additional tests required for confirmation of diagnosis in the anemias, leukemias, and coagulation systems;
perform micro collection methods safely and properly within 15 minutes;
perform partial thromboplastin (PT), activated partial thromboplastin (APTT), and selected coagulation tests using Thromboscreen, CoagSense, and the Fibrometer;
perform the manual platelet count using ThromboTic and calculate results;
perform all laboratory tests with minimal supervision, maximum accuracy and integrity, and report them in a concise manner using appropriate units and proper hospital forms/computer entry;
log-in all samples for each lab exercise; and
strictly follow lab safety rules, privacy requirements on all procedures on and off campus.

Prerequisites: ML215, ML217
Corequisites: ML224, ML227
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