Pediatric critical values and new reference intervals for. Pediatric reference intervals 8th edition elsevier. Home about us subject areas contacts advanced search help. Pediatric reference intervals pediatric laboratory.
Graphs show population distributions for each analyte fluctuations in analyte levels that occur over the course of a lifetime 379 yrs. Populationbased pediatric reference intervals in general. Pediatric reference intervals, eighth edition, is a musthave for clinical. Pdf reference intervals provide valuable information to medical practitioners in their interpretation of quantitative laboratory test results, and. Nextgeneration reference intervals for pediatric hematology. Pediatric reference intervals pri are agerelated and often also genderrelated intervals that must be used to interpret testing in the pediatric population. Physiology and its importance for reference intervals ncbi. The oregon medical education committee has approved pediatric ranges for ionized calcium, lactate, magnesium and phosphorus.
Reference intervals provide valuable information to medical practitioners in their interpretation of quantitative laboratory test results, and are. Providence laboratories will be implementing these new pediatric critical values june 5, 2017. Determination of pediatric reference intervals for 25 analytes using the vitros r 5600 integrated system. Pdf determination of pediatric reference intervals for. Pdf clinical laboratory reference intervals in pediatrics. Pediatric references intervals, 5th edition formerly pediatric reference ranges. Pdf pediatric reference intervals for biochemical markers. Reference intervals provided on laboratory reports are essential for. Pediatric airway equipment maintenance fluid requirements 421 rule.
Summarize current initiatives with successful recruitment strategies of healthy children for reference interval studies. Pediatric and adult reference intervals for chemistry. Laboratory reference ranges genomics diagnostic laboratory. The caliper reference interval database has been developed based on a study of thousands of healthy children and adolescents. Schnabl, khun and adeli ejifcc 2008, 19 2 pediatric reference intervals 1 3. Critical gap analysis and establishment of a national initiative kareena schnabl, man khun chan, and khosrow adeli clinical biochemistry, department of laboratory medicine, the hospital for sick children, university of. Pediatric reference intervals for thyroid hormones, prolactin and lipids are of high clinical importance as deviations might indicate diseases with serious consequences. Children are not little adults and reference intervals for any paediatric biomarker should be developed specifically for children and include wellrecognised. Pediatric and adult reference interval harmonization in canada.
Laboratory values see inside back cover for continuation. The caliper database provides reference standards to assist with interpretation of laboratory test results in pediatric patients. Intervals caliper project the canadian laboratory initiative on pediatric reference intervals caliper, is aimed at cre ating a comprehensive database of pediatric reference intervals to disseminate for use by other pediatric centres nationally and glob ally. Cbc and automated differential and reticulocyte parameters. Chemistry pediatric reference ranges lifebridge health. This tool is a subproject of the pedref nextgeneration pediatric reference intervals initiative, a collaborative pediatric reference intervals initiative of the department of pediatrics, university hospital erlangen and our collaborators supported by the dgkls working group on guide limits. Establishing reference intervals is problematic at the best of times because of the need to use 120 healthy individuals to establish them. Reference intervals ris are one of the most widely used decisionmaking tools in laboratory medicine and are employed primarily as standards. Pediatric reference intervals for biochemical markers. Pediatric critical values and new reference intervals for providence regional laboratories pediatric critical values. Pediatric reference intervals for thyroid hormone levels. Request pdf pediatric reference intervals in hematology background. Pdf reference intervals for neonatal thyroid function. Establish pediatric, adult and geriatric reference intervals for analytes tested by chms based on large and representative sample of the canadian population.