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Coagulation disorders : quality in laboratory diagnosis / Michael Laposata.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laposata, Michael.
- Series:
- Diagnostic standards of care.
- Diagnostic standards of care
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blood coagulation disorders--Diagnosis.
- Blood coagulation disorders.
- Diagnosis, Laboratory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Demos Medical Pub., c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Coagulation Disorders. Each day pathologists are faced with ordering laboratory tests with which they are unfamiliar. An incorrectly ordered test or error in interpreting test results can lead to mistakes that compromise patient safety. Coagulation Disorders is designed to show clinical pathologists, lab managers, medical technologists, and residents how to avoid common errors in test selection and result interpretation in diagnostic coagulation. Utilizing a case-based approach, each chapter features a concise overview of a major diagnosis, with multiple illustrative cases, and then a list of
- Contents:
- Monitoring of anticoagulant therapy and patients being treated with warfarin
- Monitoring of anticoagulant therapy in patients being treated with unfractionated heparin
- Monitoring of anticoagulant therapy in patients being treated with low molecular weight heparin
- Monitoring of anticoagulant therapy in patients being treated with fondaparinux
- Monitoring of anticoagulant therapy in patients being treated with lepirudin or argatroban
- Evaluation for heparin induced thrombocytopenia
- Evaluation of prolongations of the PT and the PTT, and assessment for deficiencies of coagulation factors
- Evaluation for disseminated intravascular coagulation
- Evaluation for a congenital hypercoagulable state
- Evaluation for antiphospholipid antibodies
- Evaluation for von Willebrand disease
- Evaluation for a coagulation factor VIII inhibitor
- Evaluation for thrombocytopenia that is not associated with heparin exposure
- Evaluation for platelet dysfunction in the presence or absence of antiplatelet agents.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-21514-4
- 9786613215147
- 1-61705-022-9
- OCLC:
- 742333390
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