Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

Thursday, February 28, 2013

The Art of Coagulation

 Source: Advance for Medical Laboratory Professionals

In medicine, when a result is normal, the laboratory confirms that the patient is free of disease, infection, malformation or not abnormal.  Coagulation results aid the clinician in determining if a patient is at a risk for thrombosis or bleeding.

But coagulation is not a perfect science.  Coagulation result interpretation is based on the individual patient history relative to their clinical situation.  Using all this information, the question can then be asked, "Is this result really normal?"

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