Revised edition of: Basic medical laboratory techniques / Barbara H. Estridge, Anna P. Reynolds, Norma J. Walters. c2000.

Introduction to the clinical laboratory -- The clinical laboratory -- The clinical laboratory professional -- Introduction to medical terminology -- Introduction to the metric system -- Laboratory safety: physical and chemical hazards -- Laboratory safety: biological hazards -- Quality assessment in the laboratory -- Laboratory glassware -- General laboratory equipment -- The microscope -- Laboratory calculations and reagent preparation -- Blood collection: capillary puncture -- Blood collection: routine venipuncture -- Basic hematology -- Introduction to hematology -- Hematocrit -- Hemoglobin determination -- The hemacytometer -- Manual RBC and WBC counts -- Platelet count -- Preparing and staining a blood smear -- Normal blood cell morphology -- White blood cell differential count -- Abnormalities in peripheral blood cell morphology -- Reticulocyte count -- Erythrocyte sedimentation rate -- Principles of automated hematology -- Basic hemostasis -- Principles of hemostasis -- Disorders of hemostasis -- Bleeding time -- Prothrombin time -- Activated partial thromboplastin time -- Rapid hemostasis tests -- Basic immunology and immunohematology -- Introduction to immunology -- Introduction to immunohematology -- Immunohematology: ABO grouping -- Immunohematology: Rh typing -- Immunology: rapid test for infectious mononucleosis -- Immunology: slide test for rheumatoid factors -- Urinalysis -- Introduction to urinalysis -- Collection and preservation of urine -- Physical examination of urine -- Chemical examination of urine -- Microscopic examination of urine sediment -- Urine hCG Tests -- Basic clinical chemistry -- Introduction to clinical chemistry -- Specimen collection and processing for clinical chemistry -- Chemistry instrumentation in the physician office laboratory -- Point-of-care testing -- Blood glucose and hemoglobin A1c -- Blood cholesterol and triglycerides -- Electrolytes -- Basic clinical microbiology -- Introduction to clinical microbiology -- Infection control and transmission-based precautions -- Public health threats: I. Emerging infectious diseases -- Public health threats: II. Biological agents and bioterrorism -- Culture techniques for bacteriology -- Preparing and gram-staining a bacteriological smear -- Throat culture and rapid tests for group A streptococcus -- Urine culture and colony count -- Bacterial identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing -- Laboratory detection of sexually transmitted diseases -- Fecal occult blood test -- Basic parasitology -- Introduction to parasitology -- Collecting and processing specimens for parasite examination -- Microscopic methods of detecting intestinal parasites -- Preparing and staining smears for blood parasites -- Glossary -- Guide to standard precautions -- Laboratory reference values -- Abbreviations and acronyms commonly used in medical laboratories -- Sources of information: health care accrediting and credentialing agencies, professional societies, governmental agencies.