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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
Interpretation of Selected Laboratory Tests - GAF326
Title: Interpretation of Selected Laboratory Tests
Guaranteed by: Department of Social and Clinical Pharmacy (16-16220)
Faculty: Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové
Actual: from 2023
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: winter s.:written
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/14, Ex [HS]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: not taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Additional information: https://intranet.faf.cuni.cz/Study-materials/KSKF/?path=interpretation+of+selected+laboratory+tests
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: PharmDr. Petra Rozsívalová
Schedule   
Annotation -
The aim of the elective subject not included into specialization is to broaden knowledge and clinical skills in critical interpretation of selected laboratory test results through case-based patient scenarios from various clinical contexts. The students gain overview and orientation in the following topics:selected basic laboratory tests and reference values (biochemistry, haematology, basic clinical immunology and oncology, microbiology results interpretation),monitoring of selected diseases with a view of pharmacotherapy, POCT (point-of-care testing).
Last update: Rozsívalová Petra, PharmDr. (17.09.2022)
Course completion requirements -

Credit: active participation during seminars, case studies presentation, discussion.

Exam: written MCQ test.

 

Last update: Rozsívalová Petra, PharmDr. (17.09.2022)
Literature -

Recommended:

  • LabTestsOnline
  • Lee, Mary (ed.). Basic skills in interpreting laboratory data. Bethesda: American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, 2013, 636 s. ISBN 978-1-58528-343-9.

Optional:

  • Crook, Martin A.. Clinical biochemistry and metabolic medicine. London: Hodder Arnold, 2012, 430 s. ISBN 978-1-4441-4414-7.
  • Provan, Andrew. Handbook of clinical haematology. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009, 820 s. ISBN 978-0-19-922739-6.
  • Provan, Andrew (ed.). Clinical and laboratory investigation. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, 870 s. ISBN 978-0-19-923371-7.
  • Nicoll, Diana. Pocket guide to diagnostic tests. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2012, 650 s. ISBN 978-1-259-64089-6.

Last update: prepocet_literatura.php (14.08.2025)
Teaching methods -

Interactive seminars, case-based patient scenarios.

 

Last update: Rozsívalová Petra, PharmDr. (28.09.2022)
Syllabus -

1. Laboratory test (defining reference values, decision limits, phases and factors influencing test results, point-of-care testing).

2. Interpretation of laboratory tests in selected kidney diseases (AKI, nephrotic syndrome, acute pyelonephritis)

3. Interpretation of laboratory results in haematology - anemia, coagulopathy - VTE/PE, in gastroenterology - GERD, IBD, in revmatology - RA.

4. Interpretation of laboratory results in cardiology - heart attack, heart failure, myocarditis, dyslipidemia.

5. Interpretation of laboratory results in liver impairment  (cholestasis, hepatitis, cirrhosis), acute pancreatitis.

6. Interpretaion of laboratory tests in endocrinology - thyroid gland impairment, diabetes mellitus

7. Infectious diseases and interpretation of laboratory tests. Final test. 

Last update: Rozsívalová Petra, PharmDr. (17.09.2022)
 
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