Basic Blood Panel, Counts, Sugar and Kidney

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Complete blood count, fasting glucose, blood urea and serum creatinine. Twenty three reported values from a single venous draw. The whole panel is itemised below, analyte by analyte, with the method beside each one, because a panel whose contents are not printed is a panel you cannot compare with anyone else's price. Twenty of the twenty three come from the blood count. Five of those twenty are not measured at all, they are arithmetic: the absolute neutrophil, lymphocyte, monocyte, eosinophil and basophil counts are the total white count multiplied by the percentages. They are marked as calculated on the report. Counting derived numbers as parameters is how a cheap panel is made to look big, so ours are labelled rather than quietly added to the total. What a result means is a separate question from what it measures, and only the second one belongs on a shop page. A reference range is the interval that covers the central 95 percent of a reference population. By construction 1 healthy person in 20 falls outside it. A value inside the range is not proof of health and a value outside it is not proof of disease. It is a number that needs reading beside you, not a verdict printed on paper. One thing worth knowing that is almost never printed: glucose keeps being consumed by the blood cells after the tube is filled, falling roughly 5 to 7 percent an hour at room temperature. That is why the glucose sample goes into a fluoride oxalate tube and not the same tube as everything else, and why a fasting sugar drawn at a place that used one tube for everything can read low for no reason but delay. Nobody here is paid for ordering a test or for sending you anywhere. No commission on a referral, no target on a panel, no revenue share with any laboratory, imaging centre or hospital. That matters more than an accreditation, because an accreditation says the machine was right and says nothing about why the test was asked for. Vitals Clinic at A.P. Colony is not open. There is no practitioner in post, no premises registration and no appointment book, and this page does not pretend otherwise. What is written here is the specification: the qualification the role requires, the register the person must appear on, and the licence the premises must hold. Booking opens when those exist, and not before.

• 23 reported values: 20 from the blood count, plus fasting glucose, blood urea and serum creatinine
• One venous draw, one prick, split across three tubes because three different preservatives are needed
• Fasting 8 to 10 hours for the glucose. Water is allowed and should be drunk, a dry patient is a hard draw
• Reference ranges printed beside every value, and derived values marked as calculated
• The report is released to you in full. It is not interpreted at a counter by somebody not qualified to interpret it
• No commission on ordering it and no target on running it