Palko's medical laboratory procedures.
Contributors: Wilken, Danielle.; Palko, Tom.; Palko, Tom.
Edition: 3rd ed. / Phyllis Cox, Danielle Wilken.
Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780073401959
Subjects: Diagnosis, Laboratory -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Medical assistants -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Laboratory Techniques and Procedures
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc
Other titles: Medical laboratory procedures
Description: xiv, 466 p. : 28 cm
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Glencoe medical laboratory procedures / Tom Palko, Hilda Palko. c1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Safety in the laboratory; title: The microscope; title: Math in the POL; title: Statistics in the POL; title: Quality assurance and quality control; title: Record keeping in the lab; title: Anatomy and physiology of the urinary system; title: Urine specimen collection and preservation; title: Physical and chemical properties of urinalysis; title: Microscopic properties of the urinalysis; title: Routine venipuncture; title: Advanced venipuncture techniques; title: Hemoglobin and hematocrit : manual procedures; title: WBC and RBC counts : manual procedures; title: Differential WBC : manual procedure; title: Automated hematology and quality control; title: Advanced hematology procedures; title: Blood coagulation; title: Blood glucose : measurement and monitoring; title: Clinical chemistry; title: Immunology tests; title: Microbiology.