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Clinical diagnostic tests : how to avoid errors in ordering tests and interpreting results / edited by Michael Laposata ; contributors, Mary Ann Thompson Arildsen [and nine others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diagnosis--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Diagnosis.
- Diagnosis, Laboratory--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Diagnosis, Laboratory.
- Diagnostic errors--Prevention--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Diagnostic errors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (311 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Demos Medical, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Clinical Diagnostic Tests is a convenient, quick-reference guide to common errors and pitfalls in test selection and result interpretation for practitioners and trainees in all areas of clinical medicine.
- Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Preface""; ""Share Clinical Diagnostic Tests: How to Avoid Errors in Ordering Tests and Interpreting Results""; ""Chapter 1: Transfusion Medicine""; ""Product-Related Errors""; ""Inappropriate Use of Fresh Frozen Plasma to Correct Mildly Elevated Prothrombin Time""; ""Standards of Care""; ""Inappropriate Use of FFP for Volume Expansion""; ""Standards of Care""; ""Inappropriate Use of Rh Immune Globulin in Pregnancy""; ""Standards of Care""; ""RhIG-Inadequate Dosing""; ""Standards of Care""
- ""Inappropriate Use of Cryoprecipitate""""Standards of Care""; ""Platelet Inactivation as a Result of Cold Exposure""; ""Standards of Care""; ""Errors in Procedures""; ""A Positive Type and Screen Will Result in Relative Delay in the Issue of Blood""; ""Standards of Care""; ""Error in Blood Sample Collection Resulting in Inaccurate Type and Screen""; ""Standards of Care""; ""Misinterpretation of Laboratory Tests for Hemolysis""; ""Standards of Care""; ""ABO Typing Discrepancy Due to Less Common ABO Subgroups""; ""Standards of Care""; ""Inappropriate Use of Autologous Blood""
- ""Standards of Care""""Rapid Transfusion in Chronic Anemia May Result in Volume Overload""; ""Standards of Care""; ""Cold Agglutinin Disease-Insignificance of Low Antibody Titers""; ""Standards of Care""; ""Hypocalcemic Toxicity from Therapeutic Plasma Exchange""; ""Standards of Care""; ""Hemolysis Following Platelet Transfusion""; ""Standards of Care""; ""Development of Coagulopathy Secondary to Intensive TPE""; ""Standards of Care""; ""Heparin-Flushed Lines-Inadvertent Exposure to Blood Circulation""; ""Standards of Care""; ""Errors Involving Specific Clinical Scenarios""
- ""Occult Anemia-Searching for a Delayed Hemolytic Transfusion Reaction""""Standards of Care""; ""Identification and Management of Clinically Significant Alloantibodies in Pregnancy""; ""Standards of Care""; ""Liberal Versus Restrictive Transfusion Strategies""; ""Standards of Care""; ""Nonevidence-based Practices in Prophylactic Platelet Transfusions for Minor Procedures""; ""Standards of Care""; ""Molecular Differences in the RhD Protein and the Need for RhIG""; ""Standards of Care""; ""Recognition of Immune-Mediated Hemolysis in a Pediatric Patient""; ""Standards of Care""
- ""Inappropriate Platelet Transfusion for Patients on Aspirin""""Standards of Care""; ""Unexpected Posttransfusion Purpura""; ""Standards of Care""; ""Phenotype Matching to Mitigate Alloimmunization in Sickle Cell Disease""; ""Standards of Care""; ""Refusing Blood Transfusion: When Patient and Physician Beliefs Fail to Align""; ""Standards of Care""; ""Crypt Antigen Activation, Adverse Consequences""; ""Standards of Care""; ""Failure to Recognize Specific Risk Factors that Are Associated with Adverse Reactions in Blood Donors""; ""Standards of Care""; ""Misinterpretation of the DAT""
- ""Standards of Care""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61705-262-0
- OCLC:
- 927375187
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