Medical Laboratory Overview

A place equipped with instruments, equipment, and chemicals for performing experimental works or research activities.

A medical laboratory is a part of a laboratory that is equipped with biomedical instruments and chemicals for performing diagnostic activities using biological specimens.

Almost one hundred years.

The explosion of knowledge in biological and clinical sciences, development of automation, and more sophisticated laboratory techniques.

Medical laboratory science professionals require a bachelor's degree, master's degree, or doctoral degree.

A well-developed body of knowledge that includes portions of basic and medical sciences, medical techniques, and research methods.

It facilitates and ensures the production of quality medical diagnostic testing.

Classifications that describe the relative hazard posed by infectious agents or toxins in the laboratory.

The ability of an infectious agent or toxin to cause disease, the way in which the infectious agent or toxin causes disease, the activities performed in the laboratory, the safety equipment and design elements present in the laboratory, and the health and training of the laboratory worker.

4 risk groups (Risk group I, Risk group II, Risk group III, and Risk group IV)

Low individual and low community risk; a pathogen is unlikely to cause disease.

High individual and low community risk; a pathogen that usually produces human disease but does not ordinarily spread from one infected individual to another.

Basic lab (Level 1 and Level 2 laboratories)

Containment Laboratory Level 3

Covid-19

The level of containment and the type of organisms handled; Containment Laboratory Level 3 is more advanced and handles higher-risk organisms.

To remove hazardous organisms and minimize the risk of infection to as few people as possible.

A microbiological safety cabinet and controlled ventilation system.

Supervising community-based health center labs, testing referred specimens, and providing support to the community.

Assisting and supervising DHLs, analyzing referred samples, performing specialized tests, and investigating epidemics.

Assisting and supervising DHLs, analyzing referred samples, performing specialized tests, and investigating epidemics.

To provide accessible and necessary services to the community and population at large.

To work with Risk Group 4 viruses, which require the strictest safety precautions.

To provide essential services that support patient care, public health, and disease prevention.

measurement of various biochemical changes in serum and body fluids

sampling, testing, measuring, recording and analyzing specimens in cooperation with the laboratory professional team

virology

to understand the molecular basis of life

to resolve patients' problems presented to the physician by performing laboratory analysis

the study of parasites

the science dealing with bacteria

ability to analyze minute and delicate specimens

Achieving good health planning and management in health care system.

Increase the accuracy of disease diagnosis.

By screening whole blood and blood products for transfusion-transmitted pathogens and screening pregnant women for anemia, infections, and other diseases.

To make a diagnosis of a pathogen, confirm a clinical impression, rule out a disease, provide prognostic information, and screen for diseases.

By providing information to use drugs more selectively, identifying patterns of emerging drug resistance, and monitoring side effects and progress.

Examination of the constituents of blood.

Assessing patients' response to drug therapy and monitoring side effects and progress.

Achieving efficiency and cost-effectiveness in healthcare system.