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General Laboratory

LABORATORY MEDICINE

It is a branch of medical science that deals with the study of the molecular and cellular elements blood and body fluids that aids the physician in proper diagnosis and treatment of diseases.

MISSION:

To provide state of the art laboratory procedures that helps the physician for the proper diagnosis and management of illness.

VISION: 

To utilize cost effective laboratory procedures that delivers a high quality of laboratory services to all patients in the eastern part of the region.

SCOPE AND SERVICES:

The Department of Laboratory Medicine offers and provides a wide variety of laboratory tests and services performed by a qualified staff at the Regular Shift from 8am to 8pm, Saturday Through Thursday. At other times, including night shift from 8pm to 8am, Fridays and Holidays, services shall be provided by appropriately reduced staff and personnel through the 24 hours period. Each shift has senior staff able to assists in troubleshooting or other unsual POCT situation.

LABORATORY SERVICES AVAILABLE:

Hematology Unit:

Available Tests:

1. Complete and Differential Blood Count
2. Bone Marrow Aspiration
3. Bone Marrow Biopsy
4. Coagulation Profile
5. Cytochemistry
6. SLE
7. Sickle Cell Screening
8. D- dimmer
9. Hgb Electrophoresis

 

Available Machine in the Unit

Cell Dyn 3700

• The Abbott CELL-DYN 3700 Hematology Analyzer is a state of the art hematology machine that gives accurate results even in the presence of problematic samples.

KC4 Coagulometer

• The KC4 Coagulometer is used for PT, APTT, Fibrinogen and Thrombin determination.

Helena

• This machine and scanner is used for Hgb electrophoresis

Clinical Chemistry Unit:

Available Tests:

•  FBS, RBS, PPBS and other glucose level
• Lipid Profile
• Liver Function Test
• Cardiac Enzyme
• Electrolytes
• Renal Function Test
• Arterial Blood Gas

Machine available in the Unit

Vitros 250

• Vitros 250 analyzer is a fully automated machine that uses dry slide method for the determination of all chemistry analysis.

Rapidlab348

•  Rapidlab 348 used for Blood Gas analysis

Clinical Microscopy Unit:

Available Tests

• Urine analysis & microalbumin urea
• Stool analysis
• Occult Blood
• CSF analysis
• Ascitic fluid analysis
• Synovial fluid analysis
• Pleural fluid analysis

Machines available in the Unit

Microscope

• Electric microscope used for the identification of the cellular elements of blood, body fluids, parasites and bacteria which is not visible to the naked eye.

Urine Clinitek

• This strip reader provides important markers to detect early stages of many disease states, such as diabetes, kidney disease and urinary tract infections.

Special Chemistry Unit:

Available Tests:

• Thyroid Function Test
• Reproductive hormones
• TORCH tests
• Hepatitis Profile
• HIV 1&2, HIVp24 Ag/Ab
• HTLV
• Vitamins
• Drugs (Gentamycin, Valporic acid, and vancomycin

Machine available in the Unit

Axsym

It is used for serology tests and therapeutic drug monitoring, and uses antibodies to alter the deflection of polarized light. It can also be used to monitor hormone level and some cardiac markers such as troponin.

DPC Immulite

• The DPC Immulite machine is used for the determination of different kinds of hormones

Evolis Machine

• Evolis is a self contained microplate processor designed to completely automate microtiter plate based EIA assays..

Minilyser

• Minilyser machine is designed with microplate processor used for serological examinations especially for donor screening.

Blood Bank and Serology Unit:

Available Tests:
(Blood Bank)

• Blood grouping
• Donor screening
• Crossmatching
• Direct Coombs
• Indirect Coombs
• Anti-D titer
• Antibody Screening
• Antibody Identification
• Confirmation

(Serology)

• ASO Titer
• Monotest
• Rheumatoid Factor
• RPR
• Cold Agglutinins

Machine Available in the Unit

Diamed ID System

• This microtyping system is used primarily for Blood Bank. Examinations include blood grouping,Rh typing, crossmatching, Coomb’s test, Antibody screening, Antibody Identification and Phenotyping. These uses gel card method

Jewitt T-10 Blood Bank Refrigerator

•  Blood component storage, with built-in solid-state electronic temperature control with the Jewett T100 Series alarm/monitor system.

Jouan Refrigerated Centrifuge

• This is used for separating blood components like Packed red blood cells, fresh frozen plasma and platelets.

Platelet Agitator and Incubator

• Platelets are stored in this machine for continuous agitation

EXTERNAL REFERRAL TESTS:

For any laboratory test that is not available at AGJ-lab can be referred to external referral laboratories in Germany or USA that has a valid accreditation as the CAP, or JCI.

QUALITY CONTROL PROGRAMS:

- AGH- laboratories have an internal and external Quality Control Program to ensure accuracy, reliability and reproduction of assays.

- Internal Control Plan includes:

• Commercial internal control to monitor day to day performance of the machines, tested once every 24 hours
• Patient sample control to ensure the precision of results.
• Interlab control to ensure the accuracy of results between same machines in different labs.

- External Quality Control plan includes:

• The BIORAD EQAS assay for Chemistry and immunoassays.
• The DIAMED external quality control for hematology
• The MiQAS external quality control for coagulation
• The DIAMED EQAS assay for Blood Bank

Our Doctors and Technologist

 

Hours of Operation:

Saturday - Thursday (08:00 am - 12:00 pm & 04:00 pm - 08:00 pm

Note: (On-call services 24 hours a day / 7 days a week)

Telephone Number(s)

+966 3 898 7000          Ext. 3157