Routine Laboratory Practice – An Inevitable Catalyst To Upgrade Technology Usage!
For a medical laboratory, constant innovation and technology upgradation cannot be ignored in today’s competitive environment. Technicians and pathologists need to remain updated not only about the latest technology in the market, but also the new and unique observations and findings in their routine laboratory practice.
Time and again, findings from routine medical laboratory operations have been the best means for upgradation of medical laboratory technology. This can be well-explained considering common examples from the medical laboratories, utilizing hematology report features that are provided by the latest technology analyzers available in the market.
Since the inception of Coulter technology, numerical values of cell counts are found to be of great importance for clinicians in diagnosis and screening of patients for various pathologies of concern. However, latest technology has features like histograms and scattergrams. Special patterns are recognized especially in the cases of malaria or dengue cases, and are not well-utilized or usually ignored by the clinicians due to lack of awareness, knowledge, or general negligence. However, studies have been published and clearly show that histograms, scattergrams, and patterns of cell-distribution in the reports provide immensely important information regarding pathology, infection, and its intensity of presence. Globally, hematology analyzer manufacturing companies are constantly in search of such findings and observations and encourage laboratories, especially with high sample load, to keep looking for and identify such trends and patterns found in histograms and scattergrams. Some of the international brands give special credits and privileges to their customers to bring such observations to light and convert the same in the form of case studies or original research articles, which could be utilized to create awareness among clinicians and industry experts regarding importance of various aspects of hematology reports produced by analyzers. Awareness once generated will create a revolution in the way quality is managed and timely treatment is provided to the patients, leading to saved time, money, and energy of precious laboratory resources.
