Lecture Notes: Clinical Biochemistry

Lecture Notes: Clinical Biochemistry allows the reader to make efficient and informed use of the diagnostic services offered by their clinical biochemistry department. The result is a text that serves as a reference to the practitioner as well as the student. The book takes a system-based approach, with the underlying physiological rationale for any test explained in the context of disruption by disease. This leads naturally to an integrated and practical understanding of biochemical diagnostics.

Including multiple choice questions (MCQs) alongside end-of-chapter case studies to help develop test-selection skills, Lecture Notes: Clinical Biochemistry provides the essential background to biochemical investigations and is an ideal course companion and revision guide for medical students, junior doctors on the Foundation Programme, general practitioners, and nurses and laboratory technicians.

Dr Geoff Beckett, Reader in Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Edinburgh

Dr Simon Walker, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Edinburgh

Dr Peter Rae, Consultant Clinical Biochemist, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh

Dr Peter Ashby, Clinical Biochemist, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh