Tag: Blood
Complete blood count
Introduction:
Blood tissue distributed throughout the body, includes the hematopoietic organs and peripheral blood.
The peripheral blood behaves in two phases:
- A liquid phase, the plasma...
Blood Lead
Indications:
The main interest of the examination is to detect lead poisoning, whether occupational or environmental origin (or former habitat near an industrial site.
Principle:
Lead absorbed...
Blood Electrolytes
Indications:
Before different clinical presentations that may be suspected of fluid and electrolyte disorders, the test measures the major blood anions and cations:
- Cations are:...
Blood Culture
Indications:
Before high fever with chills, it comes to detect the abnormal presence in the blood of a bacterium which can thus be identified. Then...
Thick Blood. Thin Smear
Indications:
The examination can detect the presence in the blood of malaria parasite: Plasmodium.
Principle:
The realization of a thick film can concentrate the maximum noise in...
Blood Sugar
Indications:
Blood sugar assay to diagnose possible anomalies of glucose metabolism, such as pancreatic insufficiency with insulin production deficit: what is diabetes.
But it is also...
Arterial Blood Gas
Indications:
The review used to assess the amount of haematosis in respiratory diseases, whether acute or chronic.
Principle:
It involves measuring blood pressure O2 and CO2, the...
Blood Alcohol Content (BAC)
Indications:
The alcolock is compulsory in cases of serious offenses or injury accident on the highway. When this test is positive, a blood alcohol is...
Hypertension
Warning:
• Hypertension is almost never a therapeutic emergency (true emergencies are left ventricular failure, hypertensive encephalopathy, aortic dissection, hypertensive retinopathy, eclampsia).
• Diagnosis is based...
Hemoptysis
Hemoptysis is a discharge of blood from the mouth, from the respiratory tree subglottic, usually during coughing.
This is usually a medical emergency. It requires...
