Veterinarian training courses library : Laboratory analysis
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Teaching goals
- Discover a new biomarker
- Understand the use of SDMA in practice
- Know how to interpret SDMA results
Teaching goals
- Understanding the differences between myelogram and spinal cord biopsy: advantages and limitations of each analysis
Knowing what material to send to the lab
Teaching goals
- Knowing the indications for performing a bone marrow aspirate to better select the necessary case
- Knowing the contraindications and possible complications
Teaching goals
- Knowing the tests to perform to establish a diagnosis of AHMI
- Namely achieving an agglutination test
- Knowing what causes underlying causes
Teaching goals
- Define regenerative anaemia (RA)
Understand the physiological mechanisms of RA- Know the main causes of RA, with an emphasis on haemolytic causes
Teaching goals
- Define non-regenerative anaemia (NRA)
- Understand physiological mechanisms of NRAKnow the main causes of NRA
Teaching goals
- Learning to deal with anemia systematically
- Know how to interpret the main erythrocyte parameters given by automated hematology
- Know how to interpret a reticulocyte count
- Awareness of the need to evaluate blood smears in cases of anemia
- Know the main differences between species
Teaching goals
- Understand DIC
- Know the predisposing circumstances
- Diagnose DIC
Teaching goals
- Interpret the presence of neutrophils
- Recognizing bacterial infection versus contamination
- Differentiate accidental puncture of a GI fissure/ GI rupture
- Interpret the presence of macrophages
- Interpret the presence of lymphocytes
Teaching goals
- Definitions - Strengths - Limitations
Teaching goals
- Understanding the principle and use of the serum protein electrophoresis (PEL)
- Identifying situations where PEL is indicated
- Understanding the terminology associated with the interpretation of an PEL profile
Teaching goals
- Define erythrocytosis
- Understand the difference between absolute and relative erythrocytosis
- Recognize the main underlying causes of erythrocytosis
Teaching goals
- Understand what the reference intervals cover
- Know when the reference intervals cannot be used to interpret the results
- Know alternative ways to interpret hematobiochemical test results.
Teaching goals
- Know the sources of analytical error
- Be able to quantify the analytical error
- Be able to limit it
- Deduce when 2 numerical results are significantly different
Teaching goals
- Know the sources of biological error:
- non-pathological inter and intra-patient differences
- Minimize pre-analytical sources of error: Optimize the quality of sampling