Lesson 8: Nature of Clinical Laboratory Exam Study Questions And Answers Well Elaborated/2024.

Clinical Laboratory - correct answer It is a place where specimens (blood and other body fluids, tissues, feces, hair and nails) collected from individuals are processed, analyze, preserved and properly disposed. Medical Technology/clinical laboratory scientists - correct answer They play a very significant role in performance of laboratory testing and ensuring the reliability of test results Classification of clinical laboratories - correct answer According to function, institutional characteristic, ownership and service capability According to function - correct answer Clinical pathology and Anatomic Pathology clinical pathology - correct answer -It is a clinical laboratory that focuses on the area of clinical chemistry, immunohematology and blood banking, medical microbiology, immunology and serology, hematology, parasitology, clinical microscopy, toxicology, therapeutic drug monitoring and endocrinology, among others. -it is concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of disease performed through laboratory testing of blood and other body fluids. anatomic pathology - correct answer -it clinical laboratory that focuses on the areas of histopathology, immunohispathology, cytology, autopsy and forensic pathology among others. -it is concerned with the diagnosis of disease through microscopic examination of tissues and organs According to institutional characteristic - correct answer Institution-based and free-standing Institution-based - correct answer -it is a clinical laboratory that operates within the premises or part of an institution such as hospital, school, medical clinic, medical facility for overseas workers and seafarers, birthing home, psychiatric facility, drug rehabilitation center and others. -hospital-based clinical laboratories are the most common example. According to ownership - correct answer Government-owned and privately owned Government-owned - correct answer -clinical laboratories are owned, wholly or partially by national or local government units. -San Lazaro Hospital, Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center, University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital, Ospital of Maynila Medical Center, Sta Ana Hospital and Bulacan Medical Center. Privately-owned - correct answer Clinical laboratories are owned, established and operated by an individual, corporations, institution, association or organization Examples: St Luke's Medical Center, Makati Medical Center and MCU-FDTMF Hospital According to Service Capability - correct answer Primary Category, Secondary Category, Tertiary Category and National Reference Category Primary Category - correct answer Urinalysis, routine stool examination, routine hematology or complete blood count that includes hemoglobin, hematocrit, WBC and RBC count, WBC differential count and qualitative platelet count, blood typing and Gram Staining (if hospital based) Equipment requirements: microscopes, centrifuge and hematocrit centrifuge Space requirement: 10 sq meters Secondary Category (Hospital and non-hospital based) - correct answer Blood glucose concentration, blood urea nitrogen, blood uric acid, blood creatinine, cholesterol determination, quantitative platelet count, and if hospital based, Gram staining, KOH mount and crossmatching Equipment requirement: microscopes, centrifuge, hematocrit centrifuge, semi-automated chemistry analyzers, autoclave, incubator and oven Minimum requirement: 20 sq meters Tertiary category - correct answer -immunology and serology, microbiology, bacteriology and mycology, special clinical Chemistry and special hematology -equipment requirement: automated chemistry analyzers, biosafety cabinet class II, serofuge, among others -minimum requirement: at least 60 square meters National Reference Laboratory - correct answer It is a laboratory in government hospital designated by the DOH to provide special diagnostic functions and services for certain disease Laws on the operation, maintenance and registration of clinical laboratories in the Philippines - correct answer Republic Act No. 4688 and Administrative Order No. 59 s 2001 Republic Act No. 4688 - correct answer An act regulating the operation and maintenance of clinical laboratories and requiring the registration of the same with the department of health, providing penalty for the violation thereof, and other purposes. Administrative Order No.59 s 2001 - correct answer Rules and regulation governing the establishment, operation and maintenance of clinical laboratories in the Philippines Administrative Order No. 59 s 2001 title - correct answer Rules and regulations governing the establishment, operation and maintenance of clinical laboratories in the Philippines Section 2: Authority - correct answer RA 4688: Clinical Laboratory law consistent with E.O 102 series 1999: Redirecting the function and operations of the Department of Health Sections of the clinical laboratory - correct answer Clinical Laboratory, Microbiology, Hematology and Coagulation studies, Clinical Microscopy, blood bank/ immunohematology, immunology and serology Clinical Chemistry - correc