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9804-18 Body Fluids: Cerebrospinal Fluid
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Description: Review the many laboratory techniques for evaluating cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) including routine procedures and new technologies. This course focuses on cell counting and identification, chemical analyses, significance of lab findings and microbiological tests for meningitis. Brain anatomy and physiology and the production of CSF are also reviewed.
Start Date: Upon registration
Completion: Up to 52 weeks
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Course includes study material and exam. 

Description: Review the many laboratory techniques for evaluating cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) including routine procedures and new technologies. This course focuses on cell counting and identification, chemical analyses, significance of lab findings and microbiological tests for meningitis. Brain anatomy and physiology and the production of CSF are also reviewed.

Start Date: Upon registration

Completion: Up to 52 weeks

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Learning Outcomes:

  • Draw and describe the major anatomical sites of the brain and its relationship to CSF, function, production and flow
  • Outline the procedure for lumbar puncture and obtaining CSF
  • Describe the choice of samples for testing CSF in different sections of the laboratory
  • Describe the appearance of normal and commonly seen abnormal findings seen in CSF samples
  • Describe the routine procedure for testing CSF
  • Discuss the appearance of cells found in CSF in normal and common abnormal situations
  • List, with their descriptions, the cells commonly referred to as lining cells
  • Explain how occasionally cells, such as cartilage, epithelial and bone marrow, occur in a CSF sample
  • Describe the features typical of malignant cells
  • List the common malignancies which metastasize and result in malignant cells seen in the CSF
  • Define meningitis and encephalitis
  • State the importance and limitations of the gram stain in a patient with meningitis
  • Describe the stains used to examine CSF
  • Describe in detail the organisms which cause bacterial meningitis
  • Outline the agents associated with viral, fungal and parasitic meningitis
  • Tabulate the Normal (Reference Values) Ranges of the commonly measured chemistry tests
  • Describe the interpretation of abnormal results from common chemistry tests
  • Describe the commonly used tumour markers to determine the origin of malignant cells
  • Discuss the value of testing a CSF with serological tests for syphilis
  • Describe the routine to determine if a nasal drainage specimen contains CSF
  • Discuss some of the newer technologies that are being used in investigating meningeal disease

 

Author: John Chapman, FCSMLS, FIMLS, CLSp(H)

Version Date: September 2018

 

PEP hours: 21

CPS credits: 0

*Note: PEP hours and/or CPS credits will only be awarded upon successful completion of Final Exam.

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