Laboratory Manual for Laboratory Procedures for Veterinary Technicians (8^th Ed.)

Reinforce the essential information you need to master with the Laboratory Manual for Laboratory Procedures for Veterinary Technicians, 8^th Edition. Corresponding to each unit in Laboratory Procedures for Veterinary Technicians, 8^th Edition, this full-color manual includes various exercises and test questions that help you focus on learning key concepts and skills for the veterinary clinical setting. Fill-in-the-blank exercises, lab exercises, crossword puzzles, word searches, photo quizzes, lab forms, specimen pictures, and review questions all help to clarify more challenging concepts. Plus, this edition includes content on fear-free handling, specimen collection methods, immunology, and quality control.

• UPDATED! Completely up-to-date information reflects the content in the main textbook.
• UPDATED! Coverage of the latest advances in veterinary clinical laboratory procedures facilitates improved patient service and higher practice revenue.
• UPDATED! Detailed guidelines teach you how to successfully perform a broad spectrum of laboratory tests, including complete blood count, urinalysis, and immunologic assays.
• NEW! Content addresses key topics such as fear-free handling, specimen collection methods, immunology, and quality control.
• NEW!Full-color layout brings new clarity and detail to images.
• Review questions help you reinforce your knowledge and assess your understanding of concepts from the text.
• Unit objectives at the beginning of each unit help you focus on the concepts you are expected to learn and how to apply those in the veterinary clinical setting.
• Learning activities in each unit include fill-in-the-blank, true and false, and multiple-choice questions; matching, word search, and photo quiz exercises; and crossword puzzles, clinical applications, and short essays.

Unit 1. The Veterinary Practice Laboratory
Unit 2. Hematology
Unit 3. Hemostasis
Unit 4. Clinical Chemistry
Unit 5. Urinalysis
Unit 6. Parasitology
Unit 7. Cytology
Unit 8. Microbiology
Unit 9. Immunology

Kristin Holtgrew-Bohling has both academic and "real world” experience. She has been a veterinary technician educator for more than 10 years and she earned her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in the spring of 2014. Kristin is an experienced guest lecturer.