Download Clinical Chemistry: A Practical Learning and Teaching Toolkit 3rd Edition 2024
Clinical Chemistry: A Practical Learning and Teaching Toolkit 3rd Edition book pdf download. This book is a toolkit for teaching a course on the pathophysiology of disease and how the most widely utilized laboratory tests can be used to diagnose these conditions. Tests for the major common diseases are presented by organ system. It is also a study guide for students and trainees as they prepare for their respective board examinations. Each topic includes succinct text focusing on a disease topic along with a set of PowerPoint lecture slides and clinical cases (with answers).
The toolkit also contains instructions for preparing the teaching laboratories for the course, a comprehensive list of differential diagnoses for the most frequent clinical chemistry abnormalities, discussion of selected cases taken by pathology residents while on night-call, and quiz questions (with answers). This third edition includes updated material on tumor markers, Alzheimer’s disease markers, markers for pre-eclampsia, additional drugs for which therapeutic monitoring is available, and biomarkers for ethanol abuse, among others. Utilization of clinical laboratory results is based upon knowledge of their accuracy, precision, and reliability. Interpretation of the data is usually performed by comparison with established reference intervals for the population. Thus, a basic understanding of clinical laboratory statistics and how reference intervals are established is important.
- Author (s): David N. Bailey, Robert L. Fitzgerald
- Year of publication: 2024
- Publisher: Springer
- Language: English
- ISBN: 3031673794, 9783031673795, 9783031673801
- Pages: 413 pages
- Book format: PDF
- File size: 4 MB
