Recently, non-traditional matrix types such as hair, nail, and dried blood spots have emerged as valid specimen types for detecting recent ethanol ingestion or exposure.

An AACC member who represents AACC on the Biosafety and Biosecurity Partners Forum has started a poll to find out if other labs know how to inventory and document biosafety in the lab and if they would be interested in learning more about it. So far, most respondents have said they’re interested in additional training or do not know anything about biosafety documentation.

In this challenging case study webinar, experts delve into the mystifying case of a man whose pre-operative laboratory testing displayed a prolonged partial thromboplastin test (aPTT) in the absence of bleeding.