Duration: 45 minutes
Presenter: Joshua Hayden, Ph.D., DABCC, FADLM
Sponsor: Abbott Diagnostics
Cost: Free
Hemolysis remains the leading cause of sample cancellation in most clinical laboratories. This issue is largely, and in many ways correctly, thought to be a collection problem.
Clinical laboratories devote significant time and effort trying to reinforce good phlebotomy practices in an ongoing struggle to keep hemolysis rates low. While collection remains essential, this talk will focus on the wide array of factors that are almost entirely within the clinical laboratory’s control and have been shown to reduce the rate of samples cancelled due to hemolysis.
Attendees will be given an overview of laboratory-based initiatives that can reduce the cancellation of samples due to hemolysis. At the conclusion of this seminar, attendees should be able to:
- Justify the value of reducing the number of samples cancelled due to hemolysis
- Outline the factors within their control that can reduce sample hemolysis
- Construct approaches to managing hemolyzed samples that do not require cancellation
Continuing education credit will be offered for this session.
Presented by
Joshua Hayden, Ph.D., DABCC, FADLM
Section Head
Clinical Biochemistry
Cleveland Clinic Laboratories
Supported in part through an unrestricted educational grant by:
MLO and Northern Illinois University (NIU), DeKalb, IL, are co-sponsors in offering continuing education units (CEUs) for this issue’s CE article. CEUs or contact hours are granted by the College of Health and Human Sciences at Northern Illinois University, which has been approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® program. Continuing education credits awarded for successful completion of this test are acceptable for the ASCP Board of Registry Continuing Competence Recognition Program. Readers who pass the test successfully (scoring 70% or higher) will receive a certificate for 1 contact hour of P.A.C.E.® credit. The fee for this continuing education test is $20. This test was prepared by Amanda Voelker, MPH, MT(ASCP), MLS, Clinical Education Coordinator, School of Health Studies, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL.
Level of Instruction: Intermediate
Passing scores of 70 percent or higher are eligible for N/A contact hour of P.A.C.E. credit. This test is no longer valid for CEUs after N/A.
NIU is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E. ® Program.
