| Your Guide to the Department |
| Written by Pathology Manager |
The 2010/12 Handbook is available to download in PDF format.
The guidance in his handbook has been written for all users of Ashford & St. Peters Pathology services to enable clinical staff to make the best use of our Pathology services.
Should you have queries with regard to any aspect of the service; staff members will be pleased to discuss these with you.
This handbook is an updated version of an earlier issue and we have tried our best to make it user friendly. The authors would be grateful for comments as well as any suggestions for the next edition.
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| GENERAL |
- Introduction
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Pathology telephone numbers
- Hours
- Services provided
- Requests and results
- Phlebotomy services
- Phlebotomy services in the community
- INR services in the community
- Handling and labeling danger of infection specimens
- Urgent requests (instructions for Trust requesters)
- Urgent requests (instructions for non-Trust requesters e.g. GPs)
- Instructions for the air tube system
- Results
- Procedure for accessing Pathology Ward Enquiry Facility
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| CHEMICAL PATHOLOGY |
- Senior staff
- Sample requirements
- Reporting results
- Phoning policy
- Telephoning abnormal results
- Near patient testing
- Paediatric investigations
- Thyroid function testing
- Patients on total parenteral nutrition
- Troponin testing
- Protein electrophoresis
- Investigation of suspected phaeochromocytoma and carcinoid
- Faecal occult blood testing
- Therapeutic drug monitoring
- Investigation of drug abuse
- Paracetamol poisoning
- Lipid analysis
- Guidance on the requesting of tumour markers
- Simple dynamic function tests
- Oral glucose tolerance test
- Low dose dexamethasone suppression test
- Short synacthen test
- Creatinine clearance
- Specimen requirements:
Adult reference and therapeutic drug ranges
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| HAEMATOLOGY AND BLOOD TRANSFUSION |
- Consultants and senior staff
- General information
- Haematology investigations
- Coagulation investigations
- Reporting policy / Response time
- Phoning policy
- Reports
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| BLOOD TRANSFUSION |
- Blood products available
- Blood Transfusion investigations
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| MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY |
- Consultants and senior staff
- General information / enquiries
- Laboratory services: Urgent / out of hours requests
- Telephoning results
- Test availability
- Microbiology samples:Blood cultures
- Urines
- Swabs
- Meningococcal disease
- Chlamydia
- Stools
- 3 Day Rule – Clostridium difficile testing
- Tuberculosis
- Serology
- Antibiotic assays
- Turnaround times
- Serological investigations
- Bacterial Endocarditis
- African Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers
- Meningitis
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| CONTROL OF INFECTION |
- Infection Control Team
- Notification of Infectious Diseases
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| CELLULAR PATHOLOGY |
- Senior staff
- General information / enquiries
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| HISTOPATHOLOGY |
- Services provided: Submission and treatment of specimens
- Frozen sections
- Reports
- Turnaround times
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| CYTOPATHOLOGY |
- Services provided
- Fine Needle Aspirates
- Core Roll Cytology
- Exfoliative Cytology
- Seminology
- Cervical samples
- Turnaround times
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| AUTOPSIES/MORTUARY |
- Autopsies
- Requests for Hospital Autopsies
- Advice of Death Certificate and Coroners
- Paediatric and Perinatal Autopsies
- Viewing of Deceased by Next of Kin
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| Appendix 1 |
- Alphabetic Test Container Guide
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| Appendix 2 |
- Inadequately / incorrectly labeled specimen policy
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Attachments:
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File size |
 Appendix 1 - Alphabetic Test Container Guide.pdf |
153 Kb |
| Appendix 2 - Incorrectly Labeled Specimen Policy.pdf |
27 Kb |
| Pathology Handbook 2010.pdf |
1342 Kb |
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| Last Updated ( Tuesday, 12 July 2011 14:00 ) |
Pathology Handbook