Clinical Chemistry · stage 4 of 6

Working the specimen

The bench techniques themselves — urine, body fluids, blood gases, separations, microscopy and amplification — plus what you do the moment an instrument or a container fails on you. You will be able to run the core chemistry workload and react correctly when a run goes wrong mid-stream.

Work through these in order

1. 1Reading urine by eye and by reagent stripPreparation and Testing
2. 2Working through the urine sedimentPreparation and Testing
3. 3Preparing slides that can actually be readPreparation and Testing
4. 4Recognising what is in the field down the microscopePreparation and Testing
5. 5Examining body fluid cells and the material around themPreparation and Testing
6. 6Putting a number on what the microscope showsPreparation and Testing
7. 7Handling and running blood gas specimensPreparation and Testing
8. 8Separating a mixture, then measuring the partsPreparation and Testing
9. 9Setting up amplification reactions without contaminating themPreparation and Testing
10. 10First response when an instrument fails mid-runEquipment and Resources
11. 11Containing and clearing a spillSafety
12. 12Acting in the first minutes of a safety incidentSafety

This reading order is MLTPrep’s own. To browse the same material filed against the competency areas instead, go back to the Clinical Chemistry study guide.

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