Pediatric Clinical Lab
Diagnostic services at Children’s Hospital New Orleans
The Laboratory provides a full range of inpatient and outpatient clinical
and anatomic laboratory services for children. The staff includes medical
technologists oriented towards the unique needs of a pediatric population.
Phlebotomists have special expertise in drawing pediatric patients. The
pathologists are certified in anatomic, clinical and pediatric pathology.
Professional expertise includes, but is not limited to:
- Chemistry and therapeutic drug monitoring
- Hematology
- Coagulation/Urinalysis
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Microbiology
- Bacteriology
- Mycology
- Mycobacteriology
- Virology
- Molecular infectious disease testing
- Immunology and flow cytometry
- Transfusion service
- Hematopoietic progenitor cell laboratory
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Anatomic pathology
- Surgical pathology
- Muscle pathology
- Renal pathology
- Cytology, including fine needle aspirations
- Autopsy
- Perinatal/placental pathology
- Ultrastructural pathology