Practical-Haemotasis.com
This site is designed to teach you practical laboratory haemostasis and was written for laboratory staff, doctors in training and anyone who has an interest in haemostasis. It stems from a series of seminars that have run in Cambridge for some years and from numerous requests for practical data interpretation exercises in haemostasis.
The site will allow you work through the various tests and to undertake a number of data-interpretation questions with the answers provided and an explanation of why (we think) the answers are correct. The site is not designed to discuss the management of these problems.
We have included comprehensive data on the interpretation of the various tests and we hope, useful comments. Much of this is based upon our own experience but also from a comprehensive review of the published literature.
The site is free to use but we would ask that you register with us so that we know who is using the site [see the Guest Book on the Navigation Bar]. Feel free to leave your comments and in particular anything that you would like to see on this site. You can also email us if you like. Just click on 'Contact Us' on the Navigation Bar and this should load your email programme. If not our email address is: mail@practical-haemostasis.com.
We aim to make the site an invaluable aid for laboratory haemostasis and as up-to-date as possible. We plan to include those tests that we still read about but are not in routine laboratory practice.
At the moment a number of parts of the site are still under construction and in evolution - keep coming back!
How to Use This Site
The site is very straightforward to use. The navigation bar on the left will guide you through the site. We have added links on various pages to speed up the process. Clicking on a link will take you to a different but relevant part of the site. There are also links to external sites that are of interest and these should open in a new browser window when you select them. The site map provides a list with links to all the tests that we cover in the site.
The Data Interpretation Section includes both Questions and Answers with an explanation as to how these answers were arrived at. You can navigate to this area either by working through a particular section in which case you will find the Data Interpretation Section at the end of the relevant page. Alternatively if you click on the Data Interpretation Section on the menu bar you will be taken to a separate page which lists all the Data Interpretation sections.
Finally - There a number of movies in the website which are used to illustrate various topics e.g. how to plot factor assays. The movies are in a QuickTime format and you may need to download the Quicktime Player from the Apple Website. This is available for both MACs and PCs. If you are using Firefox as your browser then you can download a Quicktime plugin to view the movies.
The Authors....
Dr David J Perry |
Dr Tony Todd |
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