Interpreting Laboratory Tests in Intensive Care

This book incorporates a wide variety of clinical conditions requiring admission to the intensive care unit that necessitate timely performance of diagnostic tests and their correct interpretation to guide the best treatment. It tries to translate complex physiological principles and diagnostic algorithms into a clinically relevant format that can be easily understood by clinicians. It also explains at length the key clinical inputs to be acquired by laboratory physicians before reporting the results and tries to solve the common dilemmas leading to misinterpretation. The importance of every detail, from sample collection and dispatch to correlation of clinical state report, has been adequately explained with suitable examples and proper explanations.

About the Author

Dr Anirban Hom Choudhuri is Director Professor in the Department of Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care and an expert in Critical Care Medicine at Vardhman Mahavir Medical College & Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi. He has nearly twenty years of experience in the practice of Critical Care Medicine and is an avid researcher, teacher, guide and examiner. He has published many original research, systematic reviews, meta-analysis and chapters in text books and holds a patent with Govt. of Australia (Patent number: 2021106431). He is the recipient of Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan distinguished Professor Award in 2021.His book “Imaging in Critical Care (1st edition)” was published by Taylor & Francis in 2023.

Dr Barnali Das is a Lead Consultant of Biochemistry, Immunology and Toxicology Divisions of Laboratory Medicine Department at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital & Medical Research Institute at Mumbai. She is the Chair, Association for diagnostics and laboratory medicine (formerly American Association of Clinical Chemistry), India section. She is Fellow in the Academy of Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine. She has been invited as adjunct faculty at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, MAHE. She is core committee member of ICMR Taskforce on Establishment of Reference Intervals in Indian Population (TERIIP). She is associated with IFCC Committee for Reference Interval and Decision Limits (C-RIDL) and was Executive Member of the Scientific Division of International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and laboratory Medicine (IFCC). Dr. Barnali is recipient of three oration awards and seven international and ten national awards. She has many original research publications in international & national journals.