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Show Page ID South Edition Lakeside Review Wednesday , March 2, 1 983 laboratory. Thomsen says there is more to the lab than just test tubes and microscopes. There is a variety of expensive machinery that can provide data to help doctors diagnosis many illnesses. medical technologist, (left) places a few drops of blood in a test tube. He has the responsibility to make sure the blood matches the patient's blood who will go into surgery in the morning. Leo Thomsen (right) manages the Lakeview Hospital BOB SAWYER, Hospital Laboratory Vital to Patients' Health By RON KNOWLTON I blood in good shape for Sawyer explains. Review Staff Bob Sawyer, BOUNTIFUL i a medical technologist at the lakeview Hospital, pulls plastic bag from a gray a He places part of the : micros-aglutinatio- n. refrigerator. The refrigerator is one of two 35 patients. days, Sawyer can also separate The hospitals chemistry department is the busiest part of the laboratory. Blood serum is analyzed there. A chemical analysis is done which can often help doctors determine what remedy is needed for a particular patient. The hospitals laboratory is vital in the treatment of disease and a wide array of illnesses. Through tests run in the chemistry lab, it can also be determined if there is a chernic al imbalance in the body, according to Leo Thomsen, lab blood into its different components for patients who require those components. Sawyer and the blood bank at the hospital are only one part of the hospitals laboratory. rd substance into a test tube .and adds another substance. The substance will help determine if red blood in the plastic bag can be transfused into a patient who will go into surgery that evening. ' awyer carries a heavy bur-- . h on his shoulders. If the, Wr)ng blood is given to a pa-i- t could spell a variety of problems for the patient jprolong treatment. rt of the red substance is eed under a microscope fe Sawyer looks for After tests, er is satisfied the blood is Jatible with patients blood. Hfe places the bag back into the the studies, lab personnel can determine what types of bacteria are causing difficulties for frigerator so as not to contami- nate the blood. The refrigerator will keep the Without it, doctors would be groping for answers to a wide .variety of problems suffered by their patients. The laboratory can often provide quick answers leading to a remedy to the pa-- , tier.ts problem.. , In a nearby room Nedra Wise, a medical technologist in the microbiology lab is busily at work at a microscope. Nearby are a stack of plastic and glass containers that hold bacteria its not the only expensive piece removed during surgery are ex'of machinery in the lab. There amined. The chemistry lab, however, are others with bright colored is different from a high school The pathologist measures, chemistry laboratory. Instead flashing buttons and knobs. feels and even cuts a piece off of row upon row of test tubes We could buy a city block with the tissue to examine it under a and bottles with masking tape what we have here, explains microscope. labels, this lab has a row of Thomsen.,The machinery helps Its state law that anything speed analysis of many illnesremoved bright colored machinery ex- ses during surgery must so a quick remedy can be be examined, Thomsen said. pensive machinery. found. The pathologist can sometimes People talk about the high doctors diagnose various .help In another small room in the cost of medicine, but what they problems through his observadont realize is the high cost of lab, two men work in front of a tions. instrumentation, Thomsen row of what look like small blue Even a small piece of rock said. tupperware containers. The room smells of formaldehyde. taken out of a patients foot There is one machine in the This is the histology or patholomust be examined, Thomsen lab that cost nearly $90,000. And gy department. Here, tissues said. director. . cultures. in the office. Both contain many of the small bags, but no food. A large sign specifies that no food should be placed in the re The microbiology labs main purpose is to identify bacteria; and do antibiotic studies on! them, Ms. Wise explains. From Center Produces ch Better Plants Improved conservation plants for erosion and sediment control ara among the top priorities for the riant Materials Center operated' by the Soil Conserva- Disturbed land: plants which establish and maintain! themselves under adverse tion Serivice. According to George D. con- - j ditions and will provide erosion control and possible wildlife food, cover and beautification. 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