Our Lab Departments

Clinical Chemistry

Clinical Chemistry is the area of chemistry that is generally concerned with analysis of bodily fluids for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. All biochemical tests come under chemical pathology. These are performed on any kind of body fluid, but mostly on serum or plasma. Serum is the yellow watery part of blood that is left after blood has been allowed to clot and all blood cells have been removed. This is most easily done by centrifugation, which packs the denser blood cells and platelets to the bottom of the centrifuge tube, leaving the liquid serum fraction resting above the packed cells.

Hematology & Immunology

Hematology & Immunology – is the branch of medicine concerned with the study of the cause, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases related to blood.[1][2] It involves treating diseases that affect the production of blood and its components, such as blood cells, hemoglobin, blood proteins, bone marrow, platelets, blood vessels, spleen, and the mechanism of coagulation. Need a small paragraph of both.

Microbiology

Microbiology is the study of the biology of microscopic organisms – viruses, bacteria, algae, fungi, slime molds, and protozoa. Cultures and sensitivities are performed on patient samples to determine the resulting patient microscopic organisms in the patients specimen. Antibiotic sensitivities from the patient sample provide care givers options for antibiotic treatment of their patients.
Molecular Diagnostics
Molecular provides patients microscopic organism found in their patient samples in quicker time frames than Microbiology. In addition, it provides Antibiotic Families that may work for patient recovery. Molecular alone does not provide a colony count that determines whether or not antibiotic treatment is required.