Certification
Medical Laboratory Technician - MLT
American Society for Clinical Pathology
Median earnings
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Cost
$235
Duration
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Completion
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Collects, processes, and performs routine laboratory tests in blood banking, chemistry, hematology, immunology, microbiology, molecular biology, and/or urinalysis on biologic specimens to provide information necessary for the diagnosis and treatment of disease.
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Skills taught
Perform blood banking procedures including donor qualification, blood component processing, storage, and quality control while applying knowledge of blood group systems, immunology, and transfusion practice including adverse effects and component therapyConduct serologic and molecular testing for blood group identification, antibody detection, crossmatching, direct antiglobulin testing, and compatibility testing using routine and special reagents and techniquesPerform urinalysis and body fluid analysis including physical, chemical, and microscopic examination while correlating results with renal physiology and disease states for specimens including CSF, synovial, amniotic, and serous fluidsPerform clinical chemistry testing for carbohydrates, lipids, heme derivatives, enzymes, proteins, nitrogen-containing compounds, electrolytes, and acid-base and blood gas determinations while correlating results with disease states and reference rangesPerform special chemistry testing including endocrinology, vitamin and nutrition assays, therapeutic drug monitoring, and toxicology using immunoassay and enzymatic methods while interpreting results and correlating with disease statesPerform hematology laboratory testing including manual and automated cell counts, differential and morphology evaluation, hemoglobin quantitation and electrophoresis, special stains, flow cytometry immunophenotyping, and molecular and cytogenetic testingEvaluate hemostasis function by performing coagulation testing including PT/INR, APTT, fibrinogen, D-dimer, mixing studies, platelet function assays, and hypercoagulability assessments while correlating results with coagulation pathways and disease statesPerform immunology testing including serologic procedures for autoimmune diseases, infectious disease serology, transplantation markers, and labeled immunoassays while interpreting results and correlating with immune system disease statesProcess and analyze microbiological specimens from blood, CSF, respiratory, gastrointestinal, urine, genital, and sterile body fluid sites using culture, staining, identification, and antimicrobial susceptibility testing methods including MALDI-TOF MS and molecular techniquesPerform mycobacteriology, virology, parasitology, and mycology testing including specimen processing, microscopic identification, direct detection, and molecular methods for major pathogens and disease statesApply laboratory operations knowledge including quality assessment, troubleshooting, safety practices, laboratory mathematics, and manual and automated instrumentation including spectrophotometry, mass spectrometry, flow cytometry, electrophoresis, and molecular methods across all areas of medical laboratory testingCalculate and interpret laboratory results using established formulas including transferrin saturation, bilirubin fractions, LDL, creatinine clearance, red blood cell indices, absolute cell counts, and Beer's law while applying reference ranges in both conventional and SI units