biochemistry lab mainly handles body fluids (blood urine, etc)

definitions:

• Quality control:
  • Human-like material with known values to verify the machine, the method, and the reagents
  • levey jenning chart is used
• Calibration:
  • standard with known values used to obtain a standard curve

workstation:

racks, and their meaning:

serum:

• red → urgent
• grey → routine

urine:

• red, but with yellow → urgent
• grey, but with yellow → routine

CSF and other fluids:

red or grey, same as ^, but they have specific ID\codes labelled to them

architect:

• white

quality control: