INTRODUCTION TO BASIC MEDICAL LABORATORY

Medial laboratory science is a canopy area made up of many disciplines. The most paramount departmental discipline  of medical laboratory science comprise the following;

  1. Clinical chemistry
  2. Histopathology
  3. Haematology
  4. Microbiology

The important function of medical laboratory is to help the doctor to diagnose and treat disease, by carrying out qualitative, quantitative test on a biological sample presented to them in the laboratory. The biological sample which are presented to laboratory scientist for investigation are derived from human body.  The laboratory yield a significant function in all area to understand the health system in general, with the following tack,

  1. Certifying preliminary clinician diagnosis
  2. Figure out diagnosis
  3. Determine disease
  4. Control therapy
  5. Effective drugs determination

With the increase demand of laboratory investigation recently, has lead to invention of more sophisticated equipment which help facilitate laboratory analysis. The invented instrument where design in such a way to help hasting the investigation so as to reduce the work load of the scientist. Also with the equipment, waiting time of which patient do wait until the result will be out, of which it take some time a day or more has drastically reduce of which it save more life. Medical laboratory practitioner now are days must equip themselves with the knowledge on how to operate the equipment base on their chosen discipline.

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