Gastric juice collection is often a ward procedure. Below are the procedure you need to follow to collect gastric juice from patient. 1. patient prepared for collection of gastric juice must be in fasting state and must be free from sight or overnight food odour. 2. Witheld all medication capable of influencing gastric secretion for […]
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Sexually transmitted disease (STD) can be contracted by both men and women. Here we talk about women alone, as we compiled signed and symptoms of STD in male in our next post. Here are three quick sign and symptoms that indicates you have contracted sexually transmitted disease as a lady. 1. Itching As a lady,
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1. When someone is exposed to Hepatitis B Virus (HPV, Hepatitis B surface antigen, (HBsAg), is the first thing to appear. HBsAg presence is an indication of an active infection of the HBV. Person tested positive to HBsAg is considered infectious and not fit to donate blood. 2. Hepatitis B ‘e’ antigen (HBeAg) tend to
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It necessary to conduct a laboratory test for HIV. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) should done for the following reasons; 1. To diagnose and Monitor patients. 2. To screen Donated blood and blood products for the infection. 3. To acertain the prevalence of the infection in the community. 4. Screening of Pregnant women, ANC. HIV can
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Just like every other things that have basics requirements, and set-up, Medical Laboratory has it own designs to suit the jobs needs. When starting a medical laboratory, some basic consideration must be taken into account in bring out laboratories design. In this post, i will outline seven basics, compulsory design laboratory needs. 1. The Laboratory
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Hypercalcemia as the name imply is excess of Calcium in the body system. That is, there are present of Calcium above the normal or reference range in the blood cells. High level of Calcium (Hypercalcemia) are often found in the following conditions; hypothyroidism, cancer metastases in bones, alkalosis (diet for peptic ulcer) hypervitaminosis.
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The opposite of Hypercalcemia is Hypocalcemia. It a condition when the present of Calcium in the blood cells doesn’t reach the Normal or Reference range. Lower level of Calcium in the blood is called Hypocalcemia. Often Hypocalcemia are found in the following conditions; hypoparathyroidism, Rickets, chronic glomerulonephritis, acute pancreatitis and malabsorption syndrome.
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Unsaturated steroid alcohol in our blood cells is called Cholesterol. 70 to 80 percent of cholesterol in the plasma are esterified with long chain saturated and unsaturated fatty acids, why 20 to 30 percent exist as free unesterified cholesterol. Function of Cholesterol Metabolic precursor for the biosynthesis of bile acids, and steroids hormones, includes male
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quality control in medical Laboratory come after conclusion of investigation. In order to maintain health standard guidelines, quality assurance must be there to. Quality assurance in the post analytical stage includes: Reporting and verifying Haematological test results. Taking appropriate actions when a result has serious clinical implications. Ensuring test results are interpreted correctly and adequate
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Phospholipids are biochemical compound or substance made up of combination of lipids and phosphate. The substance are ester of glycerol with two fatty acyl group and phosphotidic acid. Phospholipids has similar chemical structure with triglycerides. Phospholipids main groups in plasma are; Sphingomyelin, Lecithin and Cephalins. Phospholipids are one of the important component of plasma membrane.
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