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ASCP LabQ offers an easy way to earn credits toward Certification Maintenance. ASCP LabQ is designed for self-paced study, focusing on technical rather than diagnostic problems encountered in the laboratory. LabQ Clinical Laboratory is available online only.  

What’s included:

• 36 hours of credit in this package of 18 peer-reviewed self-study cases that lab professionals can use to earn continuing education credits in categories, including clinical chemistry, clinical immunology, hematology, microbiology, molecular diagnostics, and transfusion medicine.

• Discussions supplemented by laboratory results, tables, figures, and images.

  You can purchase other LabQ packages by visiting www.ascp.org/LabQ and www.ascp.org/LabQ-P.

• An online quiz and exam option with certificates available for immediate download and printing.

• New mobile-friendly delivery with improved navigation and resolution.

• Versatile electronic delivery: Save exercises to your computer, print them out, or read on the go via your e-reader or smart phone.

• Credits toward CMLE and CMP, state, or institutional continuing education requirements.

Scheduled Titles in 2013:

Monitoring Patient Urine in the Practice of Pain Management (chem)
Kevin F. Foley, PhD, DABCC, MT, SC(ASCP)

Hemoglobin A1c Measurement and Interferences (chem)
Mike Ivie, MT, MS, NRCC-CC

Application of Pharmakinetcs in the Interpretation of Drug Tests (chem)
Robert E. Moore, MLS(ASCP)^CMSC

Celiac Disease Testing (immun)
Vilte E. Barakauskas, PhD; Anne E. Tebo, PhD

Antinuclear Antibody Testing: Are All Methods Created Equal? (immun)
Thomas S. Alexander, PhD, D(ABMLI)

Hepatitis C Virus Testing: Procedures and Pitfalls (immun)
Katherine Drolshagen, MD

Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia: Screening, Testing, and Treating (heme)
Jeremy Parsons, MD

Challenges in Diagnosing Burkitt Lymphoma (heme)
Summer Blount, MD

Hereditary Elliptocytosis (heme)
Kelly Pennington, BS/BA; James Coad, MD; Ryan H. Livengood, MD

Broad-Range Polymerase Chain Reaction in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory (micro)
Susan M. Butler-Wu, PhD; Ajit P. Limaye, MD
Plasmodium knowlesi (micro)
Lynne S. Garcia, MS, CLS

Laboratory Identification of Anaplasma phagocytophilum (micro)
Elitza S. Theel, PhD; Bobbi Pritt, MD

False-Positive Methicillin-Resistant Staphyolcoccus Aureus Result Due to a mecA Dropout (mol)
Kristina Jackson Behan, PhD; MLS(ASCP); Marites Soriano Tubban, MSM, MLS(ASCP)

"Gains And Losses" in Clinical Genetic Testing: Comparative Genomic Hybridization Microarray Technologies Lead the Way (mol)
Brian A Gray, MS, DLM/CG(ASCP)

Training the Staff to Offer Round-the-Clock Real-Time PCR. The Last Shall Be First (mol)
Kristina Jackson Behan, PhD; MLS(ASCP)

Alloantibody Identification: What to Do When All Test Cells Are Reactive (transmed)
JoAnn Christensen, MT(ASCP)SBB^CM

Anti-Vel: The Identification of a Cold-Reactive Antibody to a High-Prevalence Antigen (transmed)
Joan L. Maurer BS, SBB(ASCP)

Cefotetan-Related Drug-Induced Immune Hemolytic Anemia (transmed)
Steven Brennan, BS, MT(ASCP)