Practical Laboratory Medicine Special Issue Podcast

Wishing Happy Medical Laboratory Professional Week from Practical Laboratory Medicine, Elsevier. Practical Laboratory Medicine is a high-quality, peer-reviewed, international open-access journal publishing original research, new methods and critical evaluations, case reports and short papers in the fields of clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine. The objective of the journal is to provide practical information of immediate relevance to workers in clinical laboratories. The primary scope of the journal covers clinical chemistry, hematology, molecular biology and genetics relevant to laboratory medicine, microbiology, immunology, therapeutic drug monitoring and toxicology, laboratory management and informatics.We welcome papers which describe critical evaluations of biomarkers and their role in the diagnosis and treatment of clinically significant disease, validation of commercial and in-house IVD methods, method comparisons, interference reports, the development of new reagents and reference materials, reference range studies and regulatory compliance reports. Manuscripts describing the development of new methods applicable to laboratory medicine (including point-of-care testing) are particularly encouraged, even if preliminary or small scale.

Practical Laboratory Medicine is pleased to present: The PLABM AKI Special Issue Podcast. In this special issue podcast, Dr. Barnali Das, Reviews Editor of Practical Laboratory Medicine talks with Dr. Joe-El Khoury, Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Director of the Clinical Chemistry Laboratory and fellowship program at Yale School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Health. He recently served as Guest Editor for Practical Laboratory Medicine’s special issue on Acute Kidney Injury. The aim of this Practical Laboratory Medicine special issue podcast is to summarize the recent advances in laboratory detection of acute kidney injury, which is fully within the scope of the journal. There is further discussion on significant advances with the transition of novel AKI biomarkers into the clinical space, creation of automated alerts and machine learning tools for AKI detection, and a new creatinine-based definition proposed by leading laboratory organizations like the AACC Academy.