Veterinary Laboratory Medicine is ideal for busy practitioners who require a short, easily accessible reference guide to laboratory work as well as invaluable for veterinary students studying laboratory medicine and clinical pathology.

Veterinary Laboratory Medicine features:

• information on sampling techniques
• guidelines for the selection and use of an external laboratory, as well as near-patient testing and the practice laboratory
• step-by-step instructions for most commonly used point-of-care tests
• a guide to the evaluation of instruments for in-practice use
• a detailed explanation of the principles of impedance counting and photometric analysis

Contents

Haematology

1. The Red Blood Cells
2. The Platelets and the Coagulation Factors
3. The White Blood Cells

Clinical Biochemistry

4. The Plasma Proteins
5. The Electrolytes
6. The Minerals
7. The Nitrogenous Substances
8. Carbohydrate Metabolism
9. Billrubin and Fat Metablism
10. Clinical Enzymology- Plasma Enzymes in Diagnosis
11. Diagnostic Endocrinology
12. Non-blood Body Fluids
13. Feline Virus Testing

Systematic Investigation

14. Investigation on an Individual Organ Basis
15. Diagnostic Profiling and Pattern Recognition

Practical Laboratory Medicine

16. Sample Collection and Use of External Laboratories
17. Side-room Testing in the Veterinary Practice
18. The Practice Laboratory

Index

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