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Equipped to make all kinds of examinations and operated by microbiologists of well-known prestige. It is provided with high - technology equipment to make bacteriology analyses, parasitology, radioimmune analysis, immunogenic tests, hematology and blood chemistry. This is an area of high automation.
Clinical Laboratory
The Quality - Control Program, developed in all its sections, has provided this department with high reliability, and therefore, the results reported provide doctors with real information for the diagnosis and treatment of their patients. The laboratory never releases a result if quality controls are not within the expected ranges. This is extremely important.
All sections are provided with modern - technology equipment that allows conducting from the simplest tests up to more complex ones that today’s medicine requires.
Only a small blood sample is needed to give doctors all the necessary information about their patients.
It is open 24 hours, year-round; also, it faxes the results when requested by the patient or the doctor.
The lab has 10 microbiologists and 6 technicians, university graduates and excellent support personnel, which guarantees the quality of the work done.
It is the only private laboratory with equipment for the analysis of arterial blood gas (capillary or arterial samples) and of electrolytes with ion selective electrodes, which guarantee precision, reproducibility and an almost immediate result in serum or whole blood samples, to assure the doctor the appropriate care of patients in critical conditions.
Automation in Hematology with Coulter and Serono9000 equipment, hormonal determinations with radioimmune analysis, immunofluorescence, quantification of therapeutic drug and of TDX abuse, as well as the most modern immunodiagnosis tests in ABBOTT IMX, stands for the quality of the results given by the laboratory. All tumor antigens and hepatitis markers.
In bacteriology we have the culture media necessary for the isolation and identification of bacteria and fungi. Also, modern BACTER 9050 equipment for hemocultures that, by means of a CO2 - sensor system, allows to determine a positive result 3 hours after cultivating the sample.
Telephones: 522-1000, ext. 2650, 2651 or 2652 Fax: 256-53-49 ext 2638
OUR EQUIPMENT
IN CLINICAL CHEMISTRY
CX5 CE
Beckman
Automated System with capacity for 525 examinations per hour.
AVL Compact 1 Arterial blood gas equipment Automated equipment for the determination of arterial blood gases. One determination can be done every three minutes.
DCA 2000 equipment, BAYER, to determine Hb A 1c gliycosylated hemoglobin and microalbuminury.
IN HEMATOLOGY
Cell Dyn 3500 R, ABBOTT, Hematologic counter,
Automated equipment, reports 15 hematologic parameters with 5-point differential. It processes 60 samples per hour.
TromboScreen 400 C, Pacific Hemostasis.
Automated equipment for the determination of prothrombin time, partial thromboplastin time and fibrinogen.
IN IMMUNOLOGY
AXSYM
ABBOTT
Enzymatic immunotest methods for the determination of antibodies against infectious diseases, tumor markers, etc.
TDx ABBOTT
Methods of fluorometric immunotest for the determination of abuse drugs, therapeutic drugs, blood levels of antibiotics, etc.
Olympus BG Fluorescence Microscope
Immunofluorescence methods for the study of autoimmune diseases, etc.
TURBOX Nephelometer
Nephelometric and turbidimetric methods for the quantification of immunoglobulins and complement levels.
IN HORMONES AND TUMOR MARKERS
IMMULITE, DPC
Automated multichannel system with chemoluminiscence methods.
BACTERIOLOGY
VITEK System, BioMerieux
Automated system for the identification of bacteria and fungi and the determination of microbial sensibility to antibiotics
BACTEC 9050
Hemoculture system
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