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
• Microbiology
  • Bacteriology
  • Mycology
  • Mycobacteriology
  • Virology
  • Molecular infectious disease testing
• Immunology and flow cytometry
• Transfusion service
• Hematopoietic progenitor cell laboratory
• Anatomic pathology
  • Surgical pathology
  • Muscle pathology
  • Renal pathology
  • Cytology, including fine needle aspirations
  • Autopsy
  • Perinatal/placental pathology
  • Ultrastructural pathology