Biomedical Techniques

Alongside the instruments used to examine a patient directly, a haematology laboratory relies on a set of standard hands-on techniques for studying the cellular components of blood itself. Haematology is the branch of medicine concerned with diagnosing, treating and preventing diseases of the blood, and two foundational laboratory techniques underpin much of that work: counting blood cells precisely using a haemocytometer, and examining a thin stained smear of blood under the micros …