Conceptos básicos para la solicitud e interpretación de analíticas en podología
- 1 Servicio de ORL - Hospital de Ourense. Universidade da Coruña. A Coruña. España
ISSN: 0210-1238
Year of publication: 2019
Volume: 30
Issue: 1
Pages: 53-68
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista española de podología
Abstract
Blood tests request represents a group of complementary tests widely used in medicine for the study of body homeostasis. Its applications are numerous, and each discipline or speciality make use of specific parameters or biomarkers that can be helpful in order to make the diagnosis, or monitor a specific disease, as well as, evaluate the usefulness of certain drugs. Moreover, blood tests are commonly used in preoperative period. The request for indiscriminate blood tests, is completely unjustified. The idea of focused blood tests should be taken into account. Podiatrists within their profesional competences, must have the knowledge of when and how request blood tests and therefore the responsibility of its interpretation.