Specialty Labs

Specialty Labs

Phlebotomy is one of the routine procedures performed by phlebotomy technicians, which often are referred to as phlebotomists. The phlebotomist's daily routine consists primarily of performing venipunctures, or fingersticks to collected capillary, venous, and sometimes, arterial blood samples into blood collection tubes, blood tube labeling, recording, preservation, and transportation of such for laboratory analysis and testing.

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Laboratory testing is an integral part of modern health care. Analysis of a blood sample helps the health care provider in the decision-making process, and diagnosis of an illness. The results of laboratory testing often strongly influence medical diagnoses and therapies. One thing that's known to always confuse people is the (logical) grouping of different hospital laboratory departments. Not everybody who hears the word lab immediately associates them with a number of different specialties, such as chemistry, anatomy, pathology; let alone serology, and microbiology, etc..

Different conditions and diseases require different types of screening methods. Therefore, most modern laboratories, especially hospital labs, have different departments to focus on a special area. These labs are vastly automated, using centrifuges, analyzers, and incubators.

Clinical Lab:

This is where medical technologists focus on processing cultures of all types to help diagnose disease. Depending on the type of culture, a tiny sample of a collected specimen is planted on special growth media and incubated for a certain amount of time. Virology, fungal, acid-fast bacteria (mycobacteriology) require special processing procedures. Clinical lab special areas are:

Toxicology

Microbiology

virology

mycology

bacteriology

parasitology

Molecular

Urinalysis

HEMATOLOGY

Chemistry Lab:

These focus mostly on bloodwork. Minute samples of blood are preserved, and screened, using fully automated chemistry lab analyzers.

Bloodbank:

This is where blood is "typed", crossmatched, and stored for transfusions.

PATHOLOGY

Histology Lab:

Here is where all surgery biopsies go for gross, and microscopic examination. Gross examination is performed by a pathologist assisted by a histology technician, who tracks, measures, mounts, stains, cuts, the specimens for the pathologist to read. Some of these body tissues can be quite large. Everything what they see, including the size and appearance, is recorded.

Cytology Lab:

This is where cytologists look at healthy and abnormal cells, e.g. PAP smears; also spinal, pleural, ascitic, and abdominal fluids, as well as sputum, are examined and analyzed here. If it is found that abnormal cells are present, the slides are reexamined by a pathologist to finalize the readings.

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Home The Phlebotomist Phlebotmy Skills Specialty Labs Phlebotomy Laws Phlebotomy Instructor Workshops Phlebotomy Programs National Certification Continuing Education Shop Online Announcements FAQ's Phlebotomy Links	Specialty Labs Phlebotomy is one of the routine procedures performed by phlebotomy technicians, which often are referred to as phlebotomists. The phlebotomist's daily routine consists primarily of performing venipunctures, or fingersticks to collected capillary, venous, and sometimes, arterial blood samples into blood collection tubes, blood tube labeling, recording, preservation, and transportation of such for laboratory analysis and testing. Learn More.... Laboratory testing is an integral part of modern health care. Analysis of a blood sample helps the health care provider in the decision-making process, and diagnosis of an illness. The results of laboratory testing often strongly influence medical diagnoses and therapies. One thing that's known to always confuse people is the (logical) grouping of different hospital laboratory departments. Not everybody who hears the word lab immediately associates them with a number of different specialties, such as chemistry, anatomy, pathology; let alone serology, and microbiology, etc.. Different conditions and diseases require different types of screening methods. Therefore, most modern laboratories, especially hospital labs, have different departments to focus on a special area. These labs are vastly automated, using centrifuges, analyzers, and incubators. Clinical Lab: This is where medical technologists focus on processing cultures of all types to help diagnose disease. Depending on the type of culture, a tiny sample of a collected specimen is planted on special growth media and incubated for a certain amount of time. Virology, fungal, acid-fast bacteria (mycobacteriology) require special processing procedures. Clinical lab special areas are: Toxicology Microbiology virology mycology bacteriology parasitology Molecular Urinalysis HEMATOLOGY Chemistry Lab: These focus mostly on bloodwork. Minute samples of blood are preserved, and screened, using fully automated chemistry lab analyzers. Bloodbank: This is where blood is "typed", crossmatched, and stored for transfusions. PATHOLOGY Histology Lab: Here is where all surgery biopsies go for gross, and microscopic examination. Gross examination is performed by a pathologist assisted by a histology technician, who tracks, measures, mounts, stains, cuts, the specimens for the pathologist to read. Some of these body tissues can be quite large. Everything what they see, including the size and appearance, is recorded. Cytology Lab: This is where cytologists look at healthy and abnormal cells, e.g. PAP smears; also spinal, pleural, ascitic, and abdominal fluids, as well as sputum, are examined and analyzed here. If it is found that abnormal cells are present, the slides are reexamined by a pathologist to finalize the readings.
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