Rotina no laboratório de Patologia Clínica da CVU

Abstract

The compulsory supervised curricular internship was conducted under the supervision of veterinarian Nubia Elisa Montenegro Lima, and under the guidance of Prof. Dr Francisca Elda Ferreira Dias, the internship was carried out at the Clinical Pathology Laboratory of the Veterinary Clinic of the University of the Federal University of Northern Tocantins. It began on 14/08/2023 and ended on 25/10/2023, totalling 400 hours. The aim of this work was to describe the main activities carried out during the internship period, which were: assisting with the entire routine of laboratory tests, from receiving and registering requests for tests to be carried out to preparing and reading the samples. The most frequently performed tests in the laboratory routine were: haemoparasite research, blood count and biochemical and serum analyses. In addition to these, the laboratory also carried out reticulocyte count tests, trichograms, skin scrapings, coproparasitological tests, urinalysis, cytology, biochemistry of biological fluids and analysis of body fluids less frequently.