This issue of Physician Assistant Clinics, Guest Edited by Jane McDaniel of Yale University, is devoted to Laboratory Medicine. Articles in this issue include: Rheumatology; Sexually Transmitted Infections; Provider Performed Microscopy Procedures; New Methods in Dementia Testing; Cardiology Testing; Thyroid Testing; Renal Function Testing; Anti-Xa for Heparin Monitoring and other Coagulation Studies; ABG Interpretation; Transfusion Medicine; Diagnostics for WBC Abnormalities: Leukocytosis/Leukopenia; Anemia Diagnostics for Iron Deficiency, B12/Folate Deficiency, Thalassemias, and Anemia of Chronic Disease; Hematology Testing for Hemolytic Anemias; and Liver Function Testing.
1. Cover image - p. i 2. Title page - p. i 3. Table of Contents - p. i 4. Copyright - p. ii 5. CME Accreditation Page - p. iii 6. Contributors - p. v 7. Forthcoming Issues - p. xi 8. Foreword - p. xiii 9. Preface - p. xv 10. Rheumatology Laboratory Tests: A Piece of the Rheumatic Disease Diagnostic Puzzle - p. 487 11. Update in the Molecular Diagnostics of Sexually Transmitted Infections - p. 501 12. Cardiac Laboratory Markers - p. 519 13. Thyroid Testing and Interpretation - p. 527 14. Hepatic Function Testing: The ABCs of the Liver Function Tests - p. 541 15. Arterial Blood Gas Interpretation Demystified - p. 551 16. Renal Function Testing - p. 561 17. Provider-Performed Microscopy Procedures - p. 579 18. Immunohematology and Transfusion Medicine - p. 591 19. Laboratory Evaluation of Hemostasis Disorders - p. 609 20. Diagnostics for White Blood Cell Abnormalities: Leukocytosis and Leukopenia - p. 625 21. Complete Blood Cell Count Interpretation for Hypoproliferative Anemias - p. 637 22. Hemolytic Anemia: Mass Destruction - p. 649
This issue of Physician Assistant Clinics, Guest Edited by Jane McDaniel of Yale University, is devoted to Laboratory Medicine. Articles in this issue include: Rheumatology; Sexually Transmitted Infections; Provider Performed Microscopy Procedures; New Methods in Dementia Testing; Cardiology Testing; Thyroid Testing; Renal Function Testing; Anti-Xa for Heparin Monitoring and other Coagulation Studies; ABG Interpretation; Transfusion Medicine; Diagnostics for WBC Abnormalities: Leukocytosis/Leukopenia; Anemia Diagnostics for Iron Deficiency, B12/Folate Deficiency, Thalassemias, and Anemia of Chronic Disease; Hematology Testing for Hemolytic Anemias; and Liver Function Testing.
1. Cover image - p. i 2. Title page - p. i 3. Table of Contents - p. i 4. Copyright - p. ii 5. CME Accreditation Page - p. iii 6. Contributors - p. v 7. Forthcoming Issues - p. xi 8. Foreword - p. xiii 9. Preface - p. xv 10. Rheumatology Laboratory Tests: A Piece of the Rheumatic Disease Diagnostic Puzzle - p. 487 11. Update in the Molecular Diagnostics of Sexually Transmitted Infections - p. 501 12. Cardiac Laboratory Markers - p. 519 13. Thyroid Testing and Interpretation - p. 527 14. Hepatic Function Testing: The ABCs of the Liver Function Tests - p. 541 15. Arterial Blood Gas Interpretation Demystified - p. 551 16. Renal Function Testing - p. 561 17. Provider-Performed Microscopy Procedures - p. 579 18. Immunohematology and Transfusion Medicine - p. 591 19. Laboratory Evaluation of Hemostasis Disorders - p. 609 20. Diagnostics for White Blood Cell Abnormalities: Leukocytosis and Leukopenia - p. 625 21. Complete Blood Cell Count Interpretation for Hypoproliferative Anemias - p. 637 22. Hemolytic Anemia: Mass Destruction - p. 649