Table of Contents
UCSF & UCSF/MOUNT ZION CLINICAL LABORATORIES MANUAL
Laboratory Operations
- Introduction
- Clinical Laboratories Staff
- Laboratory Medicine Residents
- Pathology Phone Numbers
- Emergency (Stat) Testing
- Reflex Testing
- Interpretive Reports
- Hours Of Laboratory Operation, Test Availability And Routine Run Times
Specimen Collection x31667
- Introduction
- Laboratory Services For Ambulatory Patients, Including Phlebotomy
- Patient Registration
- Locations and Hours of Service
- Containers and Instructions
- Scheduling Special Tests
- Who May Order Tests?
- Medical Necessity
- Advanced Beneficiary Notice
- In-Patient Services
- Point-of-Care Testing (POCT)
- Blood Drawing - Technical Issues
- Collection Containers Available
- Minimum Volumes
- General Technique
- Complete filling of vacutainers, especially coagulation testing:
- Order in which multiple samples should be drawn:
- Drawing from Intravascular Catheters
- 'Micro' Determinations
- Urine Collection For Chemical Analyses
- Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Collection
- Supplies For Specimen Collection
- Specimen Identification And Labeling
- Processing Of Mislabeled And Unlabeled Specimens
- Reporting Results on tests ordered in error
- Test Cancellation
- Charging Tests To Another Patient's Account
- Needle-Bearing And Other Hazardous Specimen Containers And Requisitions
- Specimen Transport And Messenger Service
- Add-On Requests And Retention Of Specimens
Laboratory Inquiries & Reports x31961
- Laboratory Inquiries & Reports x31961
- Electronic Inquiries
- Telephone Inquiries
- STAT Results and 'Panic' Values
- Printed Reports
- Fax Requests
- Computer Crashes
- Direct release of test results to patients
- Other Delays in Reporting
- Complaints About Service x26128
Transfusion Service (x31313) and Blood Donor Center (x31809)
- Blood Donation
- Infection Transmitted by Blood Transfusion
- Autologous and Directed Donation
- Blood Bank (Transfusion Service) Hours
- Specimens for Crossmatch and Check Sample
- Requests for Blood Products and Automatic Blood Orders
- CMV-Seronegative Blood Products
- Irradiation of Blood Components
- Policy for the Use of Leukocyte-Poor Blood Products
- Policy for the Use of Hemoglobin S Negative Blood
- Platelets
- Cross-Matched or HLA-Matched Platelets
- Fresh Frozen Plasma (FFP)
- Cryoprecipitate
- Washed RBCs
- Granulocytes
- Blood Components Available
- Issuing Blood
- Administering Blood
- Transfusion Reactions
Bone Marrow Aspiration/Biopsy (x31747)
- Suggestions for Improving Bone Marrow Aspirations
- Emergency Processing of Bone Marrow Samples for Histologic Examination
- Bone Marrow Culture
Microbiology (x31268)
- Introduction
- Specimen Collection (by Anatomic Site)
- Reporting and Normal Flora
- Susceptibility Testing
- Appropriate Specimens for Identifying Most Common Viral Etiologies