Experimental Diagnostics (Includes CD-ROM)

Author: Zhu Lihua
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: Laboratory Diagnostics is a discipline that combines clinical medicine and experimental technology. It provides important information for disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment efficacy, and prognosis judgment through various tests in the laboratory. This discipline involves multiple basic medical disciplines such as physics, chemistry, physiology, biochemistry, pathology, immunology, microbiology, parasitology, mathematical statistics, and instrumentation; it also covers clinical disciplines such as internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics, and pediatrics. Therefore, it is an interdisciplinary marginal discipline. As a clinical physician, mastering this course is essential to lay a solid foundation for future prevention and medical work, benefiting the people. The Laboratory Diagnostics textbook, edited by Professor Zhu Lihua of the Clinical College of Peking University, has the following features:
1. It comprehensively and thoroughly introduces the content of various related disciplines in laboratory medicine, with practicality that keeps pace with the times. The textbook includes clinical hematology testing, tests for various body fluids, secretions, and excreta, immunology testing, clinical biochemistry testing, and commonly used tests and related theories in clinical microbiology testing. It particularly emphasizes the application of testing items, the analysis of test results in combination with clinical practice, helping medical students understand medical testing methodologies and master laboratory medicine knowledge, thereby adapting to the ever-developing needs of laboratory diagnostics.
2. It aligns with international standards and fully reflects advanced concepts.
(1) This textbook is the first to introduce the concepts of evidence-based medicine and evidence-based laboratory medicine. It extensively uses evidence-based laboratory medicine analysis results in the textbook, highlighting the important role of evidence-based laboratory medicine in evidence-based medicine, and elucidating the significant role of laboratory diagnostics in clinical medicine from a deeper level.
(2) While explaining laboratory diagnostics knowledge, it introduces advanced medical testing methodologies, laboratory automation, standardization, and comprehensive quality control concepts. This fully reflects communication and dialogue between laboratory physicians and clinical physicians, aiming to cultivate a deeper understanding of laboratory medicine among clinical physicians. In future clinical practice, they can collaborate with the laboratory department to improve medical quality.
(3) It incorporates cutting-edge international content in multiple aspects. For example, in general blood tests, it explains the new dynamics of international standardization and the progress in the application of blood cell analyzers; in clinical chemistry testing, it introduces the selection of diagnostic markers for severe cardiovascular diseases by important international professional societies and the evaluation of early experimental diagnostic indicators for liver and kidney diseases; in immunology testing, it introduces the diagnostic value of various tumor markers and their applications in different tumors; and in microbiology testing, it places special emphasis on hospital infections and bacterial resistance. In addition to striving to reflect the latest developments at home and abroad, the textbook also introduces the research achievements and clinical application experiences of the author's unit.
3. It focuses on cultivating students' ability to think critically and conduct comprehensive analysis. For example, the compilers emphasize that when studying this textbook, in addition to mastering the reference ranges of various testing indicators, students must also understand their medical decision levels. The latter is a threshold above or below which it can be determined whether a person is in a healthy state or a disease state, as well as the severity of the disease. Based on the decision level, appropriate treatment measures can be taken for the tested individual. For instance, when explaining the clinical significance of laboratory test results, it focuses on analyzing and interpreting the mechanisms of numerical changes. This not only avoids rote memorization but also helps students develop the ability to comprehensively analyze and integrate the patient's medical history, current symptoms, clinical manifestations, and laboratory test results.
4. It extensively uses English to improve students' foreign language proficiency. The textbook not only uses English professional terms in the names of testing items, sample collection, detection methods, and result reporting but also attempts to use English in the names of related disciplines, the diseases involved, and even their pathogenesis. All figures and tables are fully expressed in English, making it highly beneficial for improving students' English proficiency.
In addition to being suitable for undergraduate students of medical and laboratory medicine majors, this textbook also holds significant reference value for teachers and students of junior colleges, vocational colleges, and medical schools. Furthermore, from the perspective of more effectively implementing evidence-based medicine, further improving medical quality, and strengthening communication and dialogue between clinical departments and laboratory diagnostics departments, this textbook will also benefit clinical physicians in various disciplines.