Tutorials

There are many topics in laboratory medicine that can not be captured in a test description.  Tutorials are short, focused articles that deal with a single topic.  Some tutorials describe general concepts related to laboratory testing – other tutorials give an approach to analyzing a specific clinical problem.  You can think of them as lecture notes, edited to provide the essential information as clearly as possible.

LabDx has tutorials on:

  • Acid-base status
  • Blood collection tubes
  • Diagnostic accuracy of tests
  • Drug screening
  • Hypertension
  • Monoclonal immunoglobulins
  • Pleural fluid
  • Porphyrias
  • Reference ranges
  • ROC curves
  • Therapeutic drug monitoring
  • Turnaround time
  • Unexpected test results

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Medical professionals in all fields need access to timely, accurate information on laboratory testing. Driftwood Consulting Ltd. was established to bring that information to medical students, residents, doctors, nurses and other members of the health professions.

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