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Abstract
Mathematics for the Clinical Laboratory is a comprehensive text that teaches you how to perform the clinical calculations used in each area of the laboratory and helps you achieve accurate results. This second edition features even more examples and practice problems. This edition ensures your success by using proven learning techniques focused on practice and repetition to demonstrate how you will use math in the lab every day!
- New content increases the comprehensiveness of the text
- Charts and diagrams allow you to picture how calculations work and are applied to laboratory principles
- Chapter outlines show what to expect from each chapter and how the topics flow and connect to each other
- Practice problems act as a self-assessment tool to aid in reviewing the material.
- Significantly updated chapters include calculations that are currently in use in laboratories.
- More problems and examples applicable to real-life situations have been added to all chapters for additional practice.
- A companion Evolve website features a test bank, electronic image collection, PowerPoint slides, practice quizzes, additional examples of calculations, and student practice problems.
- Chapter on the molecular laboratory familiarizes you with the most current information about the critical area of clinical laboratory science.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front Cover\r | Cover | ||
| Mathematics for the Clinical Laboratory | iii | ||
| Copyright\r | iv | ||
| Reviewers | v | ||
| Preface | vii | ||
| Acknowledgments | xi | ||
| Contents | xiii | ||
| CHAPTER 1\rBasic Arithmetic, Rounding Numbers, and Significant Figures | 1 | ||
| BASIC ARITHMETIC | 2 | ||
| ROUNDING NUMBERS | 18 | ||
| SIGNIFICANT FIGURES | 20 | ||
| WORKING WITH SIGNIFICANT FIGURES | 21 | ||
| CHAPTER 2 Scientific Notation and Logarithms | 32 | ||
| EXPONENTS AND SCIENTIFIC NOTATION | 32 | ||
| LOGARITHMS | 40 | ||
| CHAPTER 3 \rSystems of Measurement | 56 | ||
| MEASUREMENT OF LENGTH, WEIGHT, AND MASS | 56 | ||
| MEASUREMENT OF TEMPERATURE | 66 | ||
| CHAPTER 4\rDilutions and Titers | 75 | ||
| SIMPLE DILUTIONS | 76 | ||
| DILUTION VARIATIONS | 78 | ||
| DILUTED SPECIMEN VALUES | 79 | ||
| DILUTIONS VERSUS\r RATIOS | 80 | ||
| SERIAL DILUTIONS AND MULTIPLE DILUTIONS | 81 | ||
| TITERS | 87 | ||
| CHAPTER 5 \rMolarity and Normality | 94 | ||
| MOLARITY | 94 | ||
| NORMALITY | 104 | ||
| INTERCONVERSION BETWEEN MOLARITY AND NORMALITY | 109 | ||
| MOLALITY | 112 | ||
| INTERCONVERSION BETWEEN UNITS | 115 | ||
| CHAPTER 6\rCalculations Associated With Solutions | 134 | ||
| PERCENT SOLUTIONS | 134 | ||
| ANHYDROUS VERSUS HYDRATED SOLUTIONS | 141 | ||
| DENSITY CALCULATIONS | 142 | ||
| CONCENTRATION CALCULATIONS | 147 | ||
| CHAPTER 7\rClinical Chemistry Laboratory | 158 | ||
| SPECTROPHOTOMETRY | 159 | ||
| END-POINT VERSUS KINETIC REACTIONS | 179 | ||
| ENZYME KINETICS | 179 | ||
| BUFFER CALCULATIONS | 184 | ||
| ACID-BASE CALCULATIONS | 188 | ||
| ACID-BASE DISORDERS | 190 | ||
| ANION GAP | 192 | ||
| CALCULATED OSMOLALITY AND OSMOLALITY GAP | 193 | ||
| LIPID CALCULATIONS | 195 | ||
| CHAPTER 8\rUrinalysis Laboratory | 212 | ||
| URINE TESTS | 212 | ||
| CORRECTIONS USED FOR THE REFRACTOMETER | 213 | ||
| QUANTITATIVE CHEMICAL ANALYSES | 215 | ||
| RENAL FUNCTION TESTS | 218 | ||
| CHAPTER 9\rHematology Laboratory | 230 | ||
| RULE OF THREE | 231 | ||
| RED BLOOD CELL INDICES | 232 | ||
| CORRECTION OF THE WBC COUNT FOR NUCLEATED RBCs | 235 | ||
| CELL COUNTING BY THE HEMACYTOMETER METHOD | 236 | ||
| BODY FLUIDS | 241 | ||
| RETICULOCYTE COUNT | 246 | ||
| OSMOTIC FRAGILITY | 251 | ||
| INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO | 252 | ||
| CHAPTER 10\rImmunohematology Laboratory | 264 | ||
| CALCULATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE MEDICAL EFFECTS \nOF TRANSFUSION SERVICES | 264 | ||
| RH INCOMPATIBILITY | 268 | ||
| SCREENING FOR PROBABLE COMPATIBLE UNITS | 270 | ||
| CHAPTER 11\rMicrobiology Laboratory | 276 | ||
| COLONY COUNTS | 276 | ||
| ANTIMICROBIAL SUSCEPTIBILITY TESTING | 278 | ||
| CHAPTER 12\rMolecular Diagnostics Laboratory | 284 | ||
| COMMON UNITS OF MEASUREMENTS USED IN THE CLINICAL MOLECULAR LABORATORY | 284 | ||
| CONVERSIONS COMMONLY PERFORMED IN A CLINICAL MOLECULAR LABORATORY | 286 | ||
| OPTICAL DENSITY TO CONCENTRATION CALCULATIONS | 287 | ||
| MOLECULAR BIOLOGY RESOURCES | 290 | ||
| CHAPTER 13\rQuality Assurance in the Clinical Laboratory: Basic Statistical Concepts | 292 | ||
| MEAN | 292 | ||
| MEDIAN | 293 | ||
| MODE | 296 | ||
| GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION | 297 | ||
| ACCURACY VERSUS PRECISION | 297 | ||
| VARIANCE | 298 | ||
| STANDARD DEVIATION | 300 | ||
| PROBABILITIES ASSOCIATED WITH STANDARD DEVIATION | 302 | ||
| ESTABLISHING STANDARD DEVIATION RANGES, STANDARD \nDEVIATION INTERVALS, OR CONFIDENCE INTERVALS | 303 | ||
| COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION | 305 | ||
| CHAPTER 14\rQuality Assurance and Quality Control in the Clinical Laboratory | 314 | ||
| BASIC QUALITY ASSURANCE CONCEPTS | 314 | ||
| WESTGARD MULTIRULES | 323 | ||
| CHAPTER 15\rInstrument and Method Assessment | 344 | ||
| DETERMINATION OF THE DIAGNOSTIC VALUE OF A METHOD | 345 | ||
| CLIA REQUIREMENTS FOR INSTRUMENT/METHOD QUALITY ASSURANCE | 350 | ||
| DETERMINATION OF REPORTABLE RANGE OR LINEARITY OF A METHOD | 370 | ||
| VERIFICATION OF REFERENCE INTERVALS | 370 | ||
| PROFICIENCY TESTING | 370 | ||
| Answer Key | 384 | ||
| Index | 397 |