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Philip A. Dauterman
237 pages, Self (2020)
Posted March 9, 2020
Series: Free books
Listed under: lab medicine, management
How to be the Lab Director of a general hospital lab. Includes tutorials on: how to make a corrective action, requirements for proficiency testing, how to remediate proficiency testing failures, how to make a Plan of Correction (PoC), how to respond to CMS form 2567, how to put a new analyzer into service, how to do validation and verification, how to do quality control, quality assurance and root cause analysis, how to write a policy and/or procedure and how to respond to complaints and incident reports involving lab. Includes easy to understand explanations of accuracy, precision, sensitivity, specificity, proficiency testing, correlation, reference range (also called normal values), critical values (also called panic values), Limit of Detection (LoD), Limit of Quantitation (LoQ), ruggedness, robustness, linearity, Analytic Measurement Range (AMR), controls, calibration, false positive, and false negative as applied to the clinical lab and diagnostic lab testing. This book includes information on how to start a new lab, how to verify a Laboratory Developed Test (LDT) or "off label" test, qualitative analyzer verification, how to make an Individualized Quality Control Plan (IQCP), how to perform voluntary closure of a laboratory. information on how to helm a hospital lab through a major disaster, and information on Lab Director liability (malpractice) insurance, recommendations on how to validate microbiology organism identification and antibiotic sensitivity testing. This book has been updated and is current for 2020.
Philip A. Dauterman
3rd ed, 117 pages, Self (2019)
Posted March 9, 2020
Series: Free books
Listed under: lab medicine, management
The Lab Biosafety Officer position is responsible for ensuring laboratory safety and security against all hazards including biological, chemical and physical hazards. This includes containment of infectious organisms, knowledge of Biosafety Containment Levels (BSL), proper use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Biosafety Cabinets (BSC), isolation precautions and infection control, knowledge of disinfection, high level disinfection, sterilization, autoclaves and proper disposal of lab waste. This position is also responsible for chemical hazard containment and decontamination including knowledge of fire cabinets, corrosive cabinets, emergency eyewashes and emergency showers. The Lab BSO is also responsible for hazardous materials (dangerous goods) shipping, responding to spills and accidents, making risk assessments, writing procedures, writing the Biosafety Manual and making reports. The Lab Biosafety Officer is responsible for disaster planning, preparedness and responding to spills, accidents and incidents. The third edition is updated to 2019.
