Laboratory Medicine
KD Hospital's laboratory medicine department offers accurate and timely diagnostics for Ahmedabad patients. Contact us for a wide range of laboratory services and reliable test results. The pathology laboratory at Kusum Dhirajlal Hospital offers 24x7 services to patients. Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skilful execution.
The pathology laboratory at KD Hospital provides high-quality reports even in emergency situations. Our unique, high-tech laboratory has world-class instruments and well-trained, efficient staff.
Scope of services:
- Complete blood count (CBC)
- Peripheral smear examination
- Blood group
- Prothrombin time (PT)
- Activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT)
- Fibrinogen
- D-Dimer test
- Haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c)
- Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)
- Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD)
- Haemoglobin (Hb) electrophoresis
- Arterial blood gas (ABG) analysis
- Quantitative buffy coat (QBC) for malaria
- Malaria antigen detection test for malarial parasite (MP)
- Others
- Blood grouping
- Cross-matching
- Packed cell volume (PCV)
- Platelet concentrate
- Fresh frozen plasma
- Platelet-rich plasma
- Cryoprecipitate
- Cryo-poor plasma
The pathology laboratory at KD Hospital is equipped with a wide range of automated analysers. Some of our most prominent instruments are:
- LH 780-Fully Automated 5 part cell counter - Haematology analyser (Beckman Coulter)
- Cobas c311- Fully automated biochemistry analyser (Roche)
- Cobas e411- Fully automated immuno-diagnostic analyser (Roche)
- Immulytes 2000 xpi (Siemens) - Fully automated analyser for allergy tests and pregnancy markers
- QWALYS3 (Diagast) - Fully automated blood group analyser
- D10 (HPLC Technology) - Fully automated analyser for HbA1c (Biorad)
- Bactec Fx40 (BD) - Automated blood and body fluid culture instrument for the growth and detection of organisms
- Vitek 2- Fully automated identification and sensitivity testing of bacteria by minimum inhibitory concentration, MIC (BioMerieux)
- Stago (Startmax) - Coagulometer analyser
- ABL Flex 80 (Radiometer) - Arterial blood gas (ABG) and electrolytes analyser
- COBAS U 411- Urine analyser (Roche)
External quality assessment schemes are accepted worldwide as invaluable tools for laboratories to assess the accuracy of test results. Our laboratory has participated in Bio-Rad and Randox's EQAS programme to improve performance and the overall quality of laboratory practices.
- Ideal blood collection via vacutainer system to avoid activation of clotting mechanism
- Pneumatic system for rapid transport of samples, which significantly reduces Turnaround Time (TAT)
- Periodic calibration of machines
- Complete documentation like log books for instruments, daily, weekly and monthly maintenance books, etc.
- Every 4 hours, monitoring and documentation of various temperature-sensitive instruments like a refrigerator and deep freezer where reagents, kits and samples are stored
- Bidirectional interfacing of all instruments to software so that transfer of data occurs automatically, i.e. No manual error while preparing reports
- A dual check of reports by qualified and well-trained technical staff and final approval by a pathologist
- A repeat of abnormal samples and critical value samples by different technologists
