Quick, Accurate Diagnosis from Lab Results in the Palm of Your Hand!
Healthcare professionals will value the Lab Reference Pocket Guide – a convenient, easy-to-use pocket guide to laboratory testing. Featuring several hundred lab tests, each test has a brief description, norms for adults and children, and panic values. The primary purpose of the guide is to quickly identify what disease or drug has caused the test to be high or low, and then to determine a working diagnosis for the client. An alphabetized list of drugs allows providers to easily determine what lab tests to review.
This is the definitive, evidence-based guide to lab testing!!
Key Features:
· “Panic values” included to highlight clients who need immediate attention
· Alphabetized list of drugs and the lab tests they affect
· Succinct, thorough outline of major blood and urine tests available today
Section One: Cardiac Studies
Section Two: Fluid & Electrolytes
Section Three: Glucose Studies
Section Four: Liver Studies
Section Five: Nutritional Studies
Section Six: Oxygenation
Section Seven: RBC Indices Studies
Section Eight: Renal System
Section Nine: Thyroid Function Studies
Section Ten: Tumor Markers
Each section is tabbed and color-coded for fast reference.
Pages are waterproof and stainproof!