Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Laboratory Operations
1.1 Laboratory Calculations
1.2 Quality Control
1.3 Laboratory Statistics
Chapter 2: Education and Management
2.1 Education Theory and Practice
2.2 Management Theory and Practice
2.3 Laws and Regulations
2.4 Laboratory Economics
2.5 Laboratory Safety
Chapter 3: Immunology
3.1Basic Principles of Immunology
3.2Immunologic Techniques
3.3Infectious Disease Serology
3.4Autoimmune Diseases
3.5Hypersensitivity
3.6Immunoglobulins, Complement, and Cellular Testing
3.7Tumor and Transplantation
Chapter 4: Molecular Diagnostics
4.1 Nucleic Acid Chemistry
4.2 Basic Concepts
4.3 Biochemical Reagents
4.4 Genetics
4.5 Molecular Techniques
4.6 Molecular Laboratory Practices
Chapter 5: Urinalysis and Body Fluids
5.1Routine Urinalysis
5.2Urine Microscopy and Clinical Correlations
5.3Cerebrospinal, Serous, and Synovial Fluids
5.4Amniotic, Gastrointestinal, Seminal Fluids and Blood Specimens
Chapter 6: Clinical Chemistry
6.1Instrumentation and Methodology
6.2Blood Gases, pH, Electrolytes, and Vitamins
6.3Carbohydrates, Hemoglobin, Iron, and Bilirubin
6.4Creatinine, Uric Acid, BUN, and Ammonia
6.5Proteins, Electrophoresis, and Lipids
6.6Enzymes and Cardiac Markers
6.7Clinical Endocrinology
6.8Toxicology, Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Trace Metals
6.9Tumor Markers
Chapter 7: Hematology
7.1Blood Physiology
7.2Normocytic Normochromic Anemia
7.3Microcytic Hypochromic Anemia
7.4Macrocytic Normochromic Anemia
7.5Laboratory Evaluation of Anemia
7.6Qualitative and Quantitative Non-malignant Leukocyte Disorders
7.7Myelodysplastic Syndromes
7.8Lymphoproliferative and Myeloproliferative Disorders
7.9Acute Leukemia
7.10Evaluation of Leukocyte Disorders
Chapter 8: Hemostasis and Coagulation
8.1 Coagulation Physiology
8.2 Primary Hemostasis Disorders: Platelet and Vascular Disorders
8.3 Secondary Hemostasis: Factor Deficiencies and Hemorrhagic Coagulation Disorders
8.4 Thrombosis Risk Thrombotic Disorders and Anticoagulant Therapies
8.5 Evaluation of Coagulopathies
Chapter 9: Microbiology
9.1Basic Concepts and Microscopy
9.2Preanalytical Procedures
9.3 Antimicrobials and Susceptibility Methods
9.4Enterobacterales
9.5Nonfermentative Bacilli
9.6Miscellaneous and Fastidious Gram-Negative Rods
9.7Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Cocci
9.8Aerobic Gram-Positive Rods, Spirochetes, Mycoplasmas and Ureaplasmas, and Chlamydia
9.9Anaerobic Bacteria
9.10Mycobacteria
9.11Mycology
9.12Virology
9.13Parasitology
Chapter 10: Immunohematology
10.1Genetics of Blood Groups
10.2Immunology of Blood Groups
10.3ABO Blood Group System
10.4Rh Blood Group System
10.5Testing for Antibodies
10.6Compatibility Testing
10.7Transfusion Reactions
10.9Donors
10.10Hemolytic Disease of the Fetus and Newborn
10.11Serological Testing of Blood Products
10.12Transfusion Practice
Chapter 11: Photomicrographs and Color Plate Examination
