Medical Assistants often have responsibiliities in a physicians office of performing lab test, monitoring and reporting results, and reviewing lab values from outside labs. One must be able to recognize critical lab abnormalities.
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Paper involves your research of lab test that you may perform including urinalysis, blood labs and microbiology. Include individual test, normal values and what abnormal lab values could indicate.
Routine Urinalysis:
leukocytes
nitrites
urobilinogen
protein
ph
blood
specific gravity
bilirubin
glucose
ketones
Looking under a microscope at a urine specimen, what could it mean if one sees uric acid crystals or cast.
Blood test (Could come from a capillary stick or a venipuncture stick)
Include what the presence or abnormal lab would indicate, include what the normal value would be and if drawing lab using vacutainer tube, what color tube would one use?
Glucose
BUN
Bilirubin
postassium
sodium
hemoglobin (Hgb) include values for both males and females
Hematocrit (Hct)
Platelets
Red blood cells
white blood cells
prothrombin time (PT)
Partial Thromboplastin Time (PTT)
PT-INR
Cholesterol (include HDL&LDL)
Iron
Creatinine
Microbiology: organisms that cause disease are classified as GRAM positive or GRAM negative. They are also identified by their shape. They can ne a virus, a bacteria, a fungus, or a protozoan. For the following list identify if the organism which causes the disease is it Gram+ or Gram-, what is its shape, and the name of the lab test used to identify it.
MRSA
HIV
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Hepatitis A,B, and C
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