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. Affective evaluations must be satisfactory.

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

correctly perform various routine and specialized hematology tests within 50 minutes; and obtain results correlating to hospital values;
identify normal/abnormal parameters of the procedures performed;
relate major disease states causing abnormal parameters of the procedures performed;
use appropriate QC for lab tests as indicated;
review usage of the blood smear as a check of RBC indices, white blood cell and platelet count values;
complete case study portfolios on selected dyscrasias of the erythrocytic, leukocytic and coagulation systems;
identify follow-up/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 prothrombin time (PT/INR), activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT), and selected coagulation tests using CoagSense, Fibrometer, and Instrumentation Laboratory ACL 1000;
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.

Prerequisites: ML 215, ML 217
Corequisites: ML 224, ML 227
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