Veterinary Clinical Analysis I

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Pre-requisites: SAAN 4027, SAAN 4059. This course is designed to prepare the animal health technologist with the basic principles for the establishment, administration, and operation of a Veterinary Clinical Laboratory. The course focuses on the logic behind the many laboratory procedures performed in veterinary practice and how these are performed. Discusses theory, clinical importance, methodologies, quality control, instrumentation, normal values, differences between species and the associated pathologies in the following areas: Urinalysis, Urolithiasis, Clinical Parasitology, Clinical Hematology, Coagulation and miscellaneous laboratory tests. At the end of this course, the animal health technologists will practice and understand the laboratory clinical procedures, their relationship with the physiological changes in sick animals, and their variations by species.