VETS 210 - Clinical Laboratory Techniques Lab

Credit Hours: 1
Lecture Hours: 0
Laboratory Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): VETS 115, VETS 131, VETS 132, VETS 160, VETS 171, VETS 180, VETS 183, BIOL 230, and CHEM 120 or CHEM 180 or permission of the instructor

Restriction(s): None

Corequisite(s): VETS 205

This course deals with the skills necessary to provide veterinarians and researchers with accurate information on clinical laboratory specimens. These specimens include blood, plasma, cells, urine, and feces.

Student Learning Outcomes of the Course:

Student will be able to accurately perform the basic filing of medical records and lab reports.
Student will be able to create and maintain all appropriate facility records and logs in compliance with regulatory guidelines (specifically laboratory)
Student will have a commitment to and provide high quality care, throughout their career, for their patients
Student will be able to perform patient assessment techniques and properly collect diagnostic specimens for analysis.
Student will be able to collect blood using proper technique for the best possible results and without harm to the patient, themselves or others, from a dog, cat, horse or ruminant species.
Student will be able to collect an animal patient urine sample that will be able to be used for diagnostic purposes
Student will be able to properly collect, process and ship specimens to a referral laboratory for analysis.
Student will be able to safely and correctly collect and exam skin scrapings.
Student will be able to perform the cross match procedure
Students will know how to make certain that safety procedures are in place and followed when preparing diagnostic samples for analysis
Student will know how to accurately perform a urinalysis
Student will know how to perform all the procedures that comprise a CBC.
Student will know how to prepare and stain a blood film. Student will know how to perform all aspects of a microscopic exam of a blood film.
Student will know how to accurately perform a buccal mucosal bleeding time, activated clotting time and fibrinogen assay.
Student will know how to perform blood chemistry test using the Abaxis Vet Scan.
Student will be able to perform and evaluate the results from an ELISA test.
Students will be able to accurately perform a culture/sensitivity, gram stain and identification on a milk sample that has an unknown bacteria present.
Students will be able to perform these microbiologic procedures/evaluations.
Student will be able to safely handle materials that are potentially infected with rabies.
Student will be able to complete a basic evaluation of avian and other exotic animal blood films.