Understanding the complete blood count with differential

Journal of Perianesthesia Nursing

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 96-117

  George Gay, Beverly ^a   Parker, Katherine ^b  

^a Department of Education ^*  (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANESTHESIA; B LYMPHOCYTE; BASOPHIL; BASOPHILIA; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD DYSCRASIA; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTINUING EDUCATION; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; EFFECTOR CELL; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHILIA; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; GRANULOCYTE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MACROPHAGE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MONOCYTE; MONOCYTOSIS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPHIL; NEUTROPHILIA; NURSE; NURSING; PATIENT MONITORING; PEROPERATIVE CARE; POLYCYTHEMIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST; SEX RATIO; T LYMPHOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; FEMALE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTANESTHESIA NURSING; REFERENCE VALUE;

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHILD; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTANESTHESIA NURSING; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0346756198     PISSN: 10899472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jpan.2003.50013     Document Type: Article

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