Laboratory Facility

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Laboratory Facility
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Is This Your Lab?
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• Or is this
• your lab?

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First Impressions

• Keep laboratory neat and organized
• This says a great deal about the lab
• Convey image that animal users are interested in
  a quality program
• Good Animal CareGood Science

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Laboratory

• The veterinarian and vet technician are an
  efficient team in a laboratory situation
• Veterinarians depend on laboratory results to
  help establish diagnosis track the course of
  diseases and offer prognoses to clients.
• A veterinarian is trained to interpret test
  results, whereas a veterinarian technician is
  trained to generate these results

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Laboratory Facilities

• Adequate location.
• Adequate funding
• Safety and security.
• Adequate space.
• Adequate lighting.
• Environmental control.
• Equipment and instruments.
• Good housekeeping.
• Hazardous disposal
• Appropriate storage.

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Location

• The veterinary clinical laboratory should be
  located in the area that is separate from other
  hospital operations.
• The area must be well lit and large enough to
  accommodate laboratory equipment, as well as
  provide a comfortable work area.

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• Countertop space must be sufficient so that the
  sensitive equipment such as chemistry analyzers
  and cell counters can be physically separated
  from centrifuges and water baths

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Sink

• A sink is needed for a source of running water to
  provide a place to rinse, drain, or stain
  specimens.
• A technician should have a working knowledge of
  the local laws in regards to disposing of
  chemicals and waste.
• When in doubt do not put unknown chemicals down
  the drain.

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Equipment

• The laboratory shall possess or have access to
  all equipment necessary for the correct
  performance of all services.
• All equipment shall be identified, properly
  maintained and calibrated with maintenance and
  calibration procedures documented.

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Basic equipment

• Microscope
• It may use to evaluate blood, urine, semen,
  exudates, and transudates other fluids feces
  and other miscellaneous specimens.
• It also may be use to detect internal and
  external parasites and initially characterize
  bacteria.
• Ideally, the practice should maintain two
  microscopes (parasites, hematology)

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Centriguge

• The centrifuge is used to separate substance of
  different densities that are in a solution.
• When a solid and liquid components are present in
  the sample, the liquid portion is referred to as
  the supernatant and the solid component is
  referred to as sediment

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Refractometer

• A refractometer, or total solids meter, is used
  to measure the refractive index of a solution.
• The most common uses are determination of the
  specific gravity of urine and other fluids and
  the protein concentration of plasma or other
  fluids

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Chemistry Analyzer

• A variety of different chemistry analyzers are
  available for use in the veterinary medicine.
• Most chemistry analyzers used utilize the
  principals of photometry to quantify constituents
  found in blood. p.13
• Spectrophotometers are design to measure the
  amount of light transmitted through a solution

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Hematology Analyzers

• Facilitate generation of hematologic data for the
  complete blood count (CBC).
• Enumeration of cells
• Differential with blood cell count

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Incubator

• A variety of microbiology tests require the use
  of an incubator.
• The incubator must be capable of sustaining a
  constant 37 C
• Some incubators have built-in humidity controls

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Storage

• Adequate storage must be available to store
  tubes, stains, reagents etc to keep the
  countertops free of clutter.
• Some reagents must be refrigerated or frozen so a
  refrigerator/freezer should be made available
• Flammable liquid cabinets for chemicals

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Electrical Supply

• Placement of electrical equipment requires
  careful consideration. Sufficient electrical
  outlets and circuit breakers must be made
  available. Placement of outlets should also be
  taken into consideration.

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Specimens

• The laboratory shall have procedures (SOP) for
  the collection of specimens to ensure that they
  are both appropriate to the test being undertaken
  and suitable for testing.

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Complex procedures to send to other labs

• Proper instruments for collection.
• Sample selection.
• Packaging and Shipping

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Information To Accompany A Case

• Owner address and contact information.
• Submitting veterinarian info.
• Field diagnosis.
• Samples submitted.
• Species and ID of animal.
• Age/species/breed of animals affected.
• Date of initial cases/death losses

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Initial basic test offering

• Clinical pathology parasitology.
• Bacteriology.
• Serology (select agents).
• Viral serology (select agents).
• Histopathology

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Advance test offering

• Toxicology
• Virus isolation
• Molecular genetics testing
• Comprehensive immunological testing.

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Public Health Surveillance

• Cooperation with allied health professions.
• Zoonotic disease surveillance.
• Reporting zoonotic diseases that may
• pose a public health risk.

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Information Technology

• Electronic accessioning
• Results capture (records)
• Reporting
• Case coordination
• Workload statistics
• Data warehousing
• Web services

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Services

• Actual test turn-around.
• Timely reporting.
• Test result interpretation.
• New tests as needed.
• Client surveys.

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Laboratory Safety

• A safety program is essential for ensuring the
  safety of employees in a laboratory setting. The
  safety policy should include safety equipment and
  supplies including, an eyewash station, fire
  extinguishers, spill clean up kits, waste
  disposal containers and protective gloves.