Tietz fundamentals of clinical chemistry and molecular diagnostics

Includes bibliographical references and index.

You get the foundational knowledge you need to successfully work in a real-world, clinical lab. This book uses a laboratory perspective to guide you through selecting and performing diagnostic lab tests and accurately evaluating the results. It includes laboratory principles, analytical techniques, instrumentation, analytes, pathophysiology, and more. It features new clinical cases from The Coakley Collection, new questions from The Deacon's Challenge of Biochemical Calculations Collection, plus new content throughout the text to ensure you stay ahead of all the latest techniques, instrumentation, and technologies. It includes optical techniques, electrochemistry, electrophoresis, chromatography, mass spectrometry, enzymology, immunochemical techniques, microchips, automation, and point of care testing. It covers the principles of molecular biology, nucleic acid techniques and applications, and genomes and nucleic acid alterations, reflecting the changes in this rapidly evolving field.